Phew what a scorcher…
The famous headline apparently was never used in quite quite that form which is a bit of a blow, but it’s certainly been quoted as such ever since. And (as… Read more »
Category: Popular Culture
The Deadly Tale of the tortoise, the aubergine and the conductor’s baton
Tim Dowling in his Weekend world column in the Guardian recently wrote about his wife’s tortoise: In the 23 years we lived at our old house the tortoise was… Read more »
Children’s Favourite?
I doubt that many of the Dan Brown fans who visit the Temple Church ever notice the wooden plaque recording the fact that it was here in 1927 that one… Read more »
Things we forgot to remember
I’m interested to see whether this year’s Last Night of the Proms (on Saturday 9 September) takes up last year’s invented tradition when a good number of European flags mingled… Read more »