Other Men's Flowers

One of the pleasures of getting older is hearing the next generation but two still using quaint out-of-date slang like cool , with it and...

There comes a point in life when one has ceased to acquire major new skills, and but still have some which need to be perfected: getting ...

Earlier this month I had an operation and a few days in hospital. I did not expect an especially jolly week but I was not nervous, because w...

A despatch from a remote spot from which few journalists have been able to file copy is likely to be accurate, particularly when it is writt...

I have written many posts about the mighty Oxford English Dictionary, and this one described a way of getting access to the online version ...

Watching re-runs of lousy old TV dramas is hugely enjoyable: it is fascinating to see which of them can give nostalgic pleasure and which ar...

91     Who was said to have been lovely as Peer Gynt? 92     How do you say "Hamlet, I am thy father's ghost" in Afrikaans? ...

Self Help Homeopathic Remedy Kit for Friends & Family Ainsworths Essential Remedy Kit contains 42 remedies in 30C potency in 2g vials ...

One of my grand-daughters has lived in Spain since she was a toddler. Her name is Meadow, but she can't help that. Now nine years old, s...

I have never been greatly interested in ferrets. Cheery little fellows, I grant you, but lacking the gravitas of your typical weasel or the...

A few months ago we wanted to have a major decade-related family birthday celebration, but our favourite caff couldn't accommodate a par...

Those who had nothing better to do and followed the link in the answer to question 40 of Another Twenty Questions will have learned a great...

We face many years of austerity, and savage cuts in support for many of our cherished institutions will be necessary to ensure the survival ...

Most Englishmen have no problem in meeting with with Triumph and Disaster, and are fully aware not only that the female of the species is m...

Austria has long been regarded as a reactionary society, so it is splendid news than an Austrian man has, after a three-year struggle, won t...

Last month the Sunday Times published a two-page article in which Lord Snowdon and his son Viscount Linley paid extravagant compliments to e...

In a speech delivered at the LSE , Malcom Turnbull gives an Australian's view of China and refers to the assumption by Americans they wi...

The first is an Effect , the second and third are Laws and the fourth is a Response : all these are familiar to users of the internet. They...

Tonight, Other Men's Flowers marches (staggers? crawls?) into its ninth year, having since January 2004 amassed (garnered? spewed?) 347,...

This batch is intended to provide a refuge for those who find festivities and the current news equally depressing: not one of the questions ...