Silver-handled flyswatter
Just what you've always wanted, I'm sure. This caught my attention, the existence of silver-handled flyswatters, particularly as it was...
Stars like apples
Distant stars appearing so close you could reach up your hand and pick them, like apples in a tree. One...
The deciding moment
Rory Stewart was offered a large dog who seemed to have a few health and other 'issues'. I like that...
Of golden taps and super-men
An interesting insight by the writer Louis Golding when he visited the Achilleion in Corfu in the early 1950s. The...
Green-glowing fields
What a glorious image, enhanced by the animals trotting past - aggrieved camels I can envisage, but never thought of...
Of pens and pencils
Listening time: under 3 minutes. Â
This is a charming account of negotiating communist bureaucracy at the height of...
Ink-blue water
As the logos on this website testify, I'm an ink-geek, and love inky similes. Here is another...
Three in one
Listening time: under 4 minutes. One of the finest pieces of prose I have read in a long...
A Greek showed up
Listening time: under 5 minutes. From Steinbeck's masterful and lively account of travelling in the Soviet Union with...
News then, and now?
John Steinbeck's analysis of the nature of news at the height of the Cold War resonates still, drawing attention to...
Sea-drenched wind
I re-discover this triologism as we emerge from days of rain-drenched wind, waking up to a lush-verdant garden and landscape.  ...
Hare-bell sea
A lyrical description of the Greek island of Thera, bursting with flowers and trees, and all sloping down to a...
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