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Category Archives: Literary Studies
Ruthin’s Most Famous Son
I have been to Wales on only one occasion, and that was a day trip to from Cambridge to St Asaph in my relatively sprightly youth. I feel that this did not really do justice to the Principality, and that … Continue reading
Emerging From The Archives
Just back from Venice, where a surreal moment was provided by a group of Estonians in full art-folkloric fig in Campo S. Stefano, where presumably they had been singing and/or dancing on a temporary stage raised against the church wall. Him Indoors … Continue reading
Do You Like Kipling?
The wrong (and excruciating) answer to this is: ‘I don’t know, I’ve never kippled’ (this joke is courtesy of my father, more than 50 years ago, and it works a tiny bit better if spoken rather than read). I haven’t … Continue reading
The Shadow of the Vampire
An unnecessarily melodramatic heading – and do vampires have shadows? They show no reflection in mirrors, and of course they can’t appear in the light of the sun, but do they cast a shadow in moonlight or candle-light, or on … Continue reading
Our Feathered Friends
The weekend of 26-7 January was the weekend of the Great Garden Birdwatch in the UK. Organised by the wildlife charity, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, it is a survey which enables the RSPB to get an … Continue reading
