Civilization, one scoop or two?
‘What is civilization?’ A deep and vital question we need to keep asking. I liked this pithy response, particularly one...
Dull as suet pudding
A charming alternative to ‘dull as ditchwater’.  I also like the last affirmative sentence.
“Your brother is...
Leadership … Daoist style
As you know, a good children’s book has much to teach grown ups and often far more entertainingly than any...
Battering-ram power
Nancy is a character with battering-ram energy in all she does, exuberantly seeking opportunities to go to ‘war’ with her...
Stormy tea trays
We’ve had some rotten weather recently, rain-grey clouds rolling over us like dismal tumbleweed, so this resonates.
Memory of a mistake
That awful dawning when you emerge from innocent sleep and remember something you didn’t do right, and dismay fills the...
Publishers, monkeys, monkeys, publishers
I love the way Captain Flint sees his mission to find a monkey for the children as a refreshing change...
Reed-fringed banks
An image of lazy summer afternoons messing about on rivers.
Source: Arthur Ransome, Coot Club (London: Jonathan Cape, 2009 (1934)),...
Trim, trig and tickety-boo
Came across the upright word 'trig' in another of Arthur Ransome's charming children's adventure stories, Winter Holiday, which I read...
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