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In case you’re on tenterhooks to find out how things are going with the peripatetic pet I’ve already talked about here , I thought it only f...

The 27th of January 2022 was the 190th anniversary or the birth of one of the most remarkable writers I ’ve come across , Charles Lutwidge D...

“Latin’s a dead language,” the ditty I learned at school announced, “as dead as dead can be. It killed the ancient Romans and now it’s killi...

It was a big step for the family. Possibly a bad step for other road users in Spain. Strictly, there were two steps. The first came when my ...

“I think it was the same cat as last year,” Danielle told me. Last year we’d discovered a black cat mewling, apparently inconsolably, in the...

I’ve always found the notion of an ‘ancestral pile’ amusing.  This is an ironic term for some ridiculously large residence, quite possibly a...

When my boys were still young, a friend of mine told me that she pitied them. “Why?” I asked. “You’ll always be imposing experiences on them...