Writing about Cooking With Fernet Branca and coming across a book called Highballs For Breakfast : The very best of P. G. Wodehouse on the joys of a good stiff drink (Richard D. Kelly, ed.) made Gert think about memorable drink scenes. Continue reading The demon drink
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Nan Shepherd on the Scottish £5 note
Gert was delighted to see that Nan Shepherd is on the new Scottish £5 note.
I bitch, I kibitz….
Eunoia is the shortest word in the English language to contain all the vowels. It is also the title of a delightful book of verbal games written by Christian Bok.
Literary genres – My Horrible Father
Gert has long considered writing a book called My Horrible Father. It is a venerable genre stretching back at least to the Old Testament God. Then there are many horrible fathers in fairy tales who lock their children up, abandon them or sell them.