AND, BY THE WAY, here's something to read, if you like. That is to say that it's something I wrote up in half an hour and didn't find very pleasing, but thought I'd put up anyway ( Read more... )

HURRAH! 'TIS "Lessons and Carols" time here at the Hart abode (affectionately referred to as "the Marshalsea"). And wouldn't you know it, but it's introduced by a Scotsman and is in a bizarre twist of fate opened with "Once in Royal David's City" (which is coincidentally how it has always began - how curious; it's almost as though it's all been ( Read more... )

Calennig i mi, Calennig i'r ffon ( Read more... )

More snow.

Oh Lord.

FIRSTLY, I wish to pay tribute to David Barnes on this, his eighteenth birthday. Splendid chap, and aging couldn't happen to a better fellow. He's a delightful old beggar, but I'm not, and so that's as much as I'm going to say about dear Davey ( Read more... )

HMMMMMMMMM. WELL, I'm going to go sing in the choir tomorrow, and then I'm off for the major event of the day - an expedition to view a collection of Greek and Roman coinage. Wish me luck, oh yes.

THE TITLE OF THIS entry is a quote, yes. It's a quote from an operetta that is not referenced even a single time in the original film version of "King Kong". But why "King Kong", you ask? Well, why not? respond I. You fool, you say, you blind, arrogant, stupid fool. You sit there, you say, toking that pipe and whistling an air and quoting "Penzance ( Read more... )

APPARENTLY, THE POPE is reading my uncle's book - and loving it.

Goodness me, now Uncle David has celebrity backing. Oh my, oh my.

HELLO. HERE'S AN addendum to the last entry, which you must look over again all the same because I'm a sucker for attention, oh yes ( Read more... )

Good evening ( Read more... )