Woman Much Missed
Shadows falling and I’d been walking all day. Cold without a jacket and the hours ticking away. At the Boscastle roundabout, I finally turned off, directed inland by the famous black iron sign. Pausing, I bid goodbye to the silver sliver of Atlantic pinched at the bottleneck of the plunging high street. Budget tourists slid […]
PAGE RAGE
Americans have discovered a new weapon, and this time their children are in the firing line. Page-Rage has already claimed the lives of three youngsters in Chicago and one New England college student home for Thanksgiving. Book attacks are up 480% year on year. Coffee-table accessories have been targeted up to now by blood-thirsty parents, […]
April in New York
1. A Tale of Two Bars In Native American times, Manahatta was a sacred island. Translated, it means ‘place of great inebriation’. What better place to start our journey than McSorley’s Old Ale House, the oldest bar in the city, at 15 Seventh Street, just off Cooper Square, where the Bowery ends. ‘Established in 1856, […]