The Sound of Elephants Falling
Last year I gave a talk to an academic association in leafy north Oxford. As an honorarium, the £35 they gave me was derisory, but then, apparently, they are 'poor'…
Humanity in Bronze
Thanks to a beautifully written post on The Idle Woman, I took myself off to the Royal Academy yesterday to see the exhibition 'Bronze'. On the bus to the station,…
Our Stiff Upper Lip
Ian Hislop's programme on The Stiff Upper Lip - An Emotional History of Britain - began last evening and was very disappointing. After a run-through of history of the 18th…
How to empty your in box.
It was only last year that I discovered that little feature bottom left of Outlook telling me how many emails I had in my in box. I resolved to get…
The Gist and the Holy Grail
It seemed a mad thing, to go all the way to deepest Devon and back in a day. But not to go - well, that would be like not visiting…