THE SMALL THINGS

Posted by Tania Kindersley. Here is what I had forgotten about plunging into a book: the brain fever.  For the last few months I have been...

Posted by Tania Kindersley. Well, my best beloveds, I finally got a grip.  I looked the terror in the eye and said B for Be Off.  (B for Bug...

Posted by Tania Kindersley. Oh, it was all going to be so perfect.  On Monday morning, I was going to be like a finely tuned racehorse break...

Posted by Tania Kindersley. A slightly belated happy new year to all you lovely readers.  The new year has brought a new snow. Everything ...

Posted by Tania Kindersley.   I heard a fragment of In Memoriam by Tennyson this morning on The Today Programme.  I do not know Tennyson; I ...

Posted by Tania Kindersley. Well, in the end it all went quite well.  Having blithely offered to cook all parts of the lunch except the bir...

Posted by Tania Kindersley. It has suddenly, against quite a lot of the odds, got rather Christmassy in this house.  There has been playing ...

Posted by Tania Kindersley. I know, I know.  But Christmas would not be Christmas without a few slightly sentimental snow pictures.  Al...

Posted by Tania Kindersley.   A very quick post as I have been wrapping all day and dashing to the post office with last-minute parce...

Posted by Tania Kindersley. Some of you may have seen the press conference John McCain gave after Senator Al Franken stopped Senator Jo...

Posted by Tania Kindersley I know it's the biggest hoariest cheesiest old cliché, but the natural world really does astonish and awe...

If you want to do one thing to cheer yourselves up in this recession-wracked Christmas season, then watch this. It's four minutes of ...

via boingboing.net The only sadness is that apparently it is at a plastic surgeon's office. Posted via web from taniakinders...

Posted by Tania Kindersley. As you may have gathered by now, I yield to no one in my faith in the healing power of chicken soup.  (My cousi...

Posted by Tania Kindersley. A lovely fellow I know called Henry, once, aged about five, turned around to his father at this time of yea...

Posted by Tania Kindersley. After all that, today turns out to be politics.  (Of course as a good feminist I believe the personal is pol...

Posted by Tania Kindersley.   I have a slight fantasy about this blog, which is that really it is all about the abstract.  I am writing ...

Oh, at last I am home.  There are all the familiar elements of re-entry: the piles of post (junk, junk, junk, a CHEQUE! from AMERICA! in sex...