Christmas Traditions If ever there is a month associated with tradition, it is December, dominated as it is by the repeated patterns of Christmas. Whether…
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It’s November 1st, and until very recently much of Britain believed it would be waking up to a new dawn, a new and scary dawn…
Leave a CommentIt’s October and that means many things. Pumpkins won’t just find their way into soups and stews but out onto window ledges and doorsteps. Questionable…
Leave a CommentA Book About Trees At the risk of sounding like an M&S advert, this is not just a novel, this is Richard Powers’ ‘The Overstory’–and…
Leave a CommentIt’s a Word-Nerd Kind of Summer Back in February I wrote my Ode to February…a bleak month in many senses coming as it does in…
Leave a CommentTHE POLITICS OF LIFE Apart from fumbling through a mediocre degree in Politics and History many, many moons ago, and a brief dalliance with the…
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