June 2021
Yesterday our new sideboard arrived, incongruously containing 3 (painted) books – Poems of William Dunbar, Impressionist Paintings in the Louvre, and Practical Information Far All. The latter includes many facts about modern life, including the correct certificates and insurance one needs, the Beaufort Wind Scale, useful abbreviations, and waxes lyrical about the world's GREATEST reference work, The Encyclopedia Britannica.
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Creativity
Sorry John… I found this book, whilst small, incredibly annoying. I get that it was meant to be a simple little positive idea – and arguably one that’s very helpful to a lot of people. But how does that make a whole book? The book’s notable for being short and cheerful, which is something its…
Top Ten Tuesday revisited: Whisky
Back in 2009 when I used to write much more frequently than I do now I had a “series” of what you’d probably now call “listicles”, detailing various of my Top Ten things. It’s a nice easy excuse/format to get a post together, and in some cases makes for some useful Googlejuice*. One of them…