I was lucky enough to be living in what they called a ‘short term let’ in Limehouse, a council flat with less than perfect amenities, so I had been able to save £1300 with which to launch my freelance career. I stopped work, spent six weeks putting together an illustration style ...
but cannot be definitively seen to exist, or not exist. They often exist in different forms at the same time, depending on how you view them. A quantum position can be a short-term contract, long
and who used the room largely (with their families) had frequently contented themselves by inserting a penny in the box, which was intended for strangers from a distance, and not for gentlemen in the locality. It
Neil, who edited the Scottish Mountaineer magazine, has been walking and climbing in the Scottish hills for over 50 years. A member of the Braes o’ Fife Mountaineering Club since the 1980s, he has served a term as President. With the Braes o’ Fife he started rock and ice climbing and...
I had prepared her a kittening box downstairs, but no, it wasn’t safe enough for her. (I have to say that the term “kittening” sounds ominous to me. “Beware the kittening!”) Anyway, Persephone turned out to be an excellent mother. She showed her babies – all boys – how ...
She had a long-term relationship with her employer Jean Paulhan, the director of the prestigious Nouvelle Revue Française, who was 23 years her senior and a long-term liaison with historian and novelist Édith Thomas, who may have been an inspiration for the character of Anne-Marie (The...
I had prepared her a kittening box downstairs, but no, it wasn’t safe enough for her. (I have to say that the term “kittening” sounds ominous to me. “Beware the kittening!”) Anyway, Persephone turned out to be an excellent mother. She showed her babies – all boys – how ...
This just in from a former Hewett teacher: there was, indeed, a ‘cooling-off’ room at the Hewett School. However, this was never (to the best of said teacher’s knowledge) called The Cooler. Which is in fact (to the best of said teacher’s knowledge) a term used in the popular...
As tomorrow is a new school term, I’m going to use it to get back into a more structured week. So I’m going to complete the next quarter on my 2021 writing plan and I’m going to turn up at my desk regularly to see what happens! I love this quote from Peter Prange.“Instead...
It has now been renamed the Jugged Hare, and while more obviously a pub than the Chiswell Street Dining Rooms, it is not what anyone could term a boozer. Looking at the menu outside, I noticed the bottom of the menu has the same details as the one outside the Chiswell Street ...