THE SMALL THINGS

I’ve been reading about gratitude lately. Gratitude sounds a bit hippy-dippy. It may be practised by those rather maddening earnest types wh...

Too busy to blog today. So much work, so few hours. But there is always time to go down to the field and get on the sweet mare. Even a half ...

I wish there were a British equivalent for the curveball. It is one of those good American expressions which finds no match in these islands...

Warning: crazed insomnia last night, so there is a very real danger none of this may make any sense at all.   I read something today about...

I bang on about quite a lot of things. One of the things about which I bang is not taking anything for granted. I mostly remember this but s...

There are so many matters to report and so little time. I wanted to do a whole thing on grammar, since there was a discussion on it as I lis...