Parrot tongues, monkey brains and seventy-seven desserts

Clive alive-o

Olga Masters: Loving Daughters

Another fine mess I’ve got me in

                                                    

Another of Gert’s famous quizzes

Hopeless but not serious

Madeleine St John: A Pure Clear Light

Don’t tell anyone, but Gert’s heart sank to her boots when she read the judges’ statement for the Stella Prize longlist:

Word of the month club: berserk