I’d first read Israel Zangwill’s book The Big Bow Mystery , a locked room novel set in the London area of Bow, not one about a big bow. The...

  It seems true, as Kitty Kallen said, that little things mean a lot. My experience these last few weeks have emphasised this. Living as a s...

  When I first visited Lichfield, I gave myself too long in that small City. I’d spied all the Samuel Johnson things I’d come for, spent hou...

I came across Hubbub at the right moment. It was a few days after I’d recieved the keys for the new house, wandered about and realised how ...

 “I pity wretched Strephon blind  To all the charms of female kind;  Should I the queen of love refuse,  Because she rose from stinking ooze...

  "To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labour tends.” - Samuel Johnson, R...