Apples and Roses

Happy November! I delight to inform you that we have bought, wrapped, and boxed 8 of 10 Christmas presents for overseas. (I will probably co...

Let's go to the cathedral! Too many issues are treated as if they were a football game. People almost demand that others take sides. I w...

There are a rash of articles in the UK newspapers about young women left reeling or semi-paralysed after their drinks were spiked or, even m...

When we came home from our holiday in England, I wrote down all the languages for which I have study materials and worked out which ones I u...

Sweet triumphalism. Hello, dear readers! Benedict Ambrose and I returned from our travels on Friday afternoon, and I plugged in my dead phon...

I'm not going to be typing for a whole nine days. Yes, it is time for my October holidays, and although I will not be spending them in G...