Constantly changing climate, and packing very lightly in the first place I’d rather have light luggage and the odd trip to a laundrette than massive bags with coats and stuff Also in places like Bang… (View Post)

Superb My one proper post op transsexual friend is lesbianly married to the sister of the widow of Douglas Adams The estate was frigging enormous and still generates ££££££ A clever chap even if his … (View Post)

One of the more poignant examples from “the meaning of liff” is “Glasgow” “Glasgow” is the sadness that overcomes you when you unexpectedly walk into a loud crowded room full of noisy, happy people a… (View Post)

Excellent book One of my favourites - and genuinely useful - is “ibstock” An “ibstock” is a perfectly sized length of natural wood - a small branch perhaps - that you find at the beginning of a rural… (View Post)

PICTURE QUIZ Seen at the National Palace Museum in Taipei, today. The place whereto the Nationalists smuggled much of China’s great treasure in 1949 It’s a pretty, typically Chinese piece of jade orn… (View Post)