Yule Tidings
Well, I apologise for neglecting this blog. The term has been a difficult one, with the strictures on tutors now so impossible to live with that I'm considering quitting. Is…
Well, I apologise for neglecting this blog. The term has been a difficult one, with the strictures on tutors now so impossible to live with that I'm considering quitting. Is…
This year I have been to many funerals, and not been to just as many. Most of my friends are Platonists and I don’t know what to say when it…
'Oh, you haven't heard,' said the librarian in the Duke Humphrey Library, the oldest and most beautiful part of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, with its carrels of deeply polished oak…
For those of us reading War and Peace as part of 'Team Tolstoy' on dovegreyreader's blog, here's a little lesson in diction, as powerful as it is short. It was…
I'm listening to a great programme on history and literature, coming from Cheltenham Literary Festival and broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Repeated tonight at 9.30, or available as a podcast.…