Reviews

Contest on a windy day

A golfing trial on a windy day It was a lovely, late April day in Southwest Florida. We had been to the gym and the library earlier in the morning. A...

English is a colorful language

English is a colorful language. I have always been fascinated by the use of idioms in the English language. Usually, there is no literal correlation...

The Glittering Prizes

Gorgeous acrobatics I’ve been speaking to the designers at the Edinburgh branch of the ACJ (Association for Contemporary Jewellery) who are currently...

The Best Chocolate Dessert Ever

After our last experience of lunching out on a Bank Holiday we did have some trepidation about booking for the three course Easter Sunday Lunch at...

A Good Cup of Coffee

A Good Cup of Coffee We read the announcement, for a “Coffee Tasting,” in our Spring Run online bulletin. Josh Petrovsky, our Food and Beverage...

Unleash the hounds

When I was a child in the late seventies the overly sentimental theme song from the cartoon version of Watership Down seemed to be on the radio...
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On Mescalin

as it were...

Book Review: The Hunt for the 60's Ripper

The Hunt for the 60’s Ripper Robin Jarossi (Mirror Books, 2017) In the early sixties as London began to swing eight women were murdered, their bodies...

The Cremation of Sam McGee"

“The Cremation of Sam McGee” - by Robert W. Service The Poem opens with a rhyming Octet explaining the subject of the work: There are strange things...