When I started reading For Sylvia: An Honest Account by Valentine Ackland (published posthumously, in 1985) I was rather prepared to loathe...

Thanks for all your encouragement for Five from the Archive  last week - it was great to hear your suggestions, and I think this will ...

At least that's the plan, so long as it doesn't rain too much... Here's the beautiful Queen during the Jubilee Flotilla. ...

This is where I fully anticipate losing half my regular readers, but... yes, I watch Glee .  I think it's half dreadful and half enterta...

Time to start up another place to record reviews, I think...  A bit like the fiscal year, the Stuck-in-a-Book year rolls around every April ...

H a p p y J u b i l e e W e e k e n d , everyone!  Well, the actual Jubilee was back in February, so happy 59th anniversary of the Coronati...