Category: Real Life
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The First of the ‘Bers…
White Rabbits once again! Here we are in the final third of the year once more, the ‘Bers. Winter’s approaching, the days are getting shorter, the nights are getting darker earlier, the mornings are getting harder to get up in, the candles are being lit before supper, the coal fires are being stoked before bedtime,…
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A Little Misinterpretation
There’s something in the air. There has to be. I mean to say, there’s no other explanation for it. None. Whatsoever. What, with the recent goings on in Essex and all. I’ve just seen a polar bear strolling around the back of the dry cleaners. I had to call in to drop some laundry off,…
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Before England’s Green and Pleasant Land
Back in the day when England was connected to the rest of Europe by land, Southern England was a desert. This was during the Ice Age, and mankind was just taking his / her / its first steps, competing with woolly mammoths, woolly hippos, woolly rhinoceroses, and woolly sabre-toothed tigers for food and places to…