Dust if you must… a poem on the perils of housework.
This sweet poem was first published on September 15th 1998 in the 21st edition of The Lady (“in continuous publication since 1885 and widely respected as England’s longest running weekly magazine for...
View ArticleThe Strand is beautiful with buses: poems on the underground.
Both of us spent many hours on buses in London. There is a quiet majesty in travelling on them. A gravitas as they move through the streets of the city we both love so much. We would rush upstairs and...
View ArticleThe little old ladies down the lane – Tim Parks’ photos of a dying breed
One of the first things I noticed when I started spending time in England, age 14, was how different old ladies look compared to the classical Italian grandmother: bright colored clothes, umbrella at...
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