Take a lucky dip in this refreshing pool of posts, randomly selected like literary Russian roulette (but more fun and much safer). Or filter by category to take a deeper dive into specific themes.  Enjoy!
Of rumours
A superb simile to describe the velocity and trajectory of rumours, a watery version of 'spreading like wild-fire'. In the age of social media...
My kind of library – Rijksmuseum
Love this library and will book a morning there to read and write when we make it to the Rijksmuseum. Enjoy this short virtual tour, and...
In praise of clannish cattle
A charming tribute to cows by a man better known for being a sheep farmer. I had forgotten how much I love cattle - their clannish ways, their...
One day it will happen
Not only did I like this simile for peace, it also seems apt to feature it following VE Day, which was meant to herald peace, particularly as today...
A book that changed everything
James Rebanks describes reading a book which changed 'everything'. Can you name a book which did the same for you? Let me know, I'd love to hear. ...
Two views of the future
A curious metaphor to describe two scenarios for the future, conveying the extent to which we can't predict anything. With war raging in Ukraine,...
Tell them
This fellow farmer may have encouraged James Rebanks to write his clear-eyed, concise and moving account of the changes witnessed and experienced as...
The study of vanished things
I recall my sorrow when I learned that the enchantingly named Nonsuch Palace vanished almost without trace, morphing from a splendid Tudor dream of...
Easy laughter
A merry simile for an easy laugh, though I never thought of woodpeckers as laughing. See another avian reference to laughter, by the same author.......
Now we are six (II)
Dear Kind Reader,Firstly, happy St Jordi's Day, the Valentine's Day of booklovers.  And this year, the 23 April lands on a Saturday so you can...
Write and gripe
I like letter writers who gripe about the responses (or lack of) from correspondents. Pliny is the arch whinger when he doesn't think his friends...
Belief in the past
A thoughtful and original definition of regret, with Bowen considering that it affirms the ability to believe in something, if only in a backwards...
Appreciation is a better mode for the understanding of achievement than are all the analytical kinds of accounting for the emergence of exceptional individuals. Appreciation may judge, but always with gratitude, and frequently with awe and wonder. Â
By ‘appreciation’ I mean something more than ‘adequate esteem’. Need also enters into it, in the particular sense of turning to the genius of others in order to redress a lack in oneself, or finding in genius a stimulus to one’s own powers, whatever these may emerge as being.
Source: Harold Bloom, Genius (London: Fourth Estate, 2002), p. 5
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