THE SMALL THINGS

Again the post brings no computer part so posts continue compromised. But who cares? It is my birthday. The sun shines. My mother wins the p...

AH, AH, no sign of computer part. Keyboard and formatting continue broken. Bored of giving you sub-standard haikus. BUT am in triumph as hav...

Computer part again not arrived, so typing and formatting continue compromised. But my dear mum MUCH better, which is good news. Thank you f...

Computer woes continue. Posts to remain sketchy as consequence. SO SORRY. Today am thinking about Kant and aesthetics. You can sue me now fo...

Outside swathed in dreich. Computer not yet mended. Answer – think   about                                                                  ...

For something quite wondrous, go here -            http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/ahow           or here -  http://www.bbc.co.uk/ipla...

Computer angst once more. Posts patchy and sub-standard. GOOD NEWS - mother home from hosp and doing better. Hope computer better in three ...

Posted by Tania Kindersley. I lost two days. Turned around, took my eye off the thing and pphhtt: they were gone. There was tiredness and ...

Posted by Tania Kindersley. The thaw waxes and wanes. Almost all the snow has gone, but long dirty patches of ice form and reform, so that...

My friend So Lovely has a wonderful post up today about Langston Hughes visiting Haiti.  It made me go and look at his poems, whic...

Posted by Tania Kindersley. My mum is in the hospital, so she is the picture of the day: Her situation is not grave, but the rigorous...

Posted by Tania Kindersley. When a horror comes that is too big, it is hard for the human mind to comprehend. The tragedy turns into numbers...

Posted by Tania Kindersley. ONE THREE NINE THREE, my darlings, one three nine three.  After yesterday's dispiriting loss, I sternly sa...

Posted by Tania Kindersley. It was a rotten day. The slush slushed, and then iced over again so that it was perilous underfoot, and a low,...

Posted by Tania Kindersley. There is nothing lovely to look at outside any more.  The stalactites of ice have fallen from the eaves and th...

Posted by Tania Kindersley. Obviously, you will be doing more than one thing, so I am being rhetorical.  But do run to the BBC iplayer and...

Posted by Tania Kindersley. I think I mentioned that I saw The Young Victoria on Saturday night. I seem to remember that it got lukewarm r...

Posted by Tania Kindersley. The snow is still top-of-the-gumboots deep and the stalactites hang off the gutters like something out of a fa...

Posted by Tania Kindersley. Quite often I work at the weekends, but today I am having a proper Saturday day off.  I am having a perfectly ...

Posted by Tania Kindersley. It was minus fourteen last night. This morning, even with a glorious winter sun gleaming out of a cerulean sky, ...