Ludibundness? Dippoldism? Contorplicate? Cathistophobia? Seeksorrow? Floccinaucinihilipilification? Continue reading Simply messing about in books
Monthly Archives: March 2017
You egg!
This door is alarmed
Department of Stories
Do you think, in this age of alternative facts, that this is a good slogan for a department store?
The Little Red Chairs-Edna O’Brien
‘Edna O’Brien was the first Irish woman to have sex,’ says Anne Enright in her Guardian review of O’Brien’s 2011 novel, The Light of Evening. She goes on to say for Irish women of that time, 1960, sex was mostly about having children.
Continue reading The Little Red Chairs-Edna O’Brien
Seneca among the trees
Mooching about
Gert has been mooching about like a cow in clover munching on this and that. Here are a few tasty things to chew on: Continue reading Mooching about
I knew a woman…
Terry Castle – The Professor and other writings*
A new business model for online news
Sydney café closes children’s playroom after ‘disgusting’ behaviour