A budding thrust and foison
An archaic word for abundance or to describe a rich harvest, it also refers to physical energy, power or strength, or...
Be careful what you promise
This precedes an account in which the remote gods called ‘grown ups’ casually promise a trip to the circus which...
May you make the welkin ring!
A literary term for the sky or heaven, from Old English welcin meaning ‘cloud or sky’ and related to Dutch wolk...
St Helena in the nursery
Napoleon’s exile invoked to stand for banishment to the nursery. But the visitor deserved the rudeness. She had been enumerating...
A sensible sort of room
The boy slips out of a deadly dull afternoon tea in which two ladies are talking about clothing. He finds...
The best room in the palace
How do you impress a girl on first meeting? By divulging details of the chocolate room in your dream palace, of...
Grateful gods
Adults, as you know, are remote, powerful and unpredictable, giving them a striking resemblance to the Greek gods on Olympia. When...
Dandelion-steeped sunlight
What a heart-warming image of sun-washed memories. May you and your memories be dandelion-steeped in sunlight.
‘Those memorable days that...
The clash of a stramash
A lovely sounding Scottish or northern English word for a row or an uproar. Never heard this word before, but...
On clothes and calls
In Grahame’s account of a Victorian childhood, the boys are baffled by the adult penchant for putting on formal clothes...
Sunshine after rain
A bright evocation of the sunshine after rain and the sense of astonishing renewal that comes with it. I like...
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