Grist to the Mill

Tea 'healthier' drink than water The researchers recommend people consume three to four cups a day Drinking three or more cups of t...

DRIVING TEST Well, I passed - eventually. Driving is scaring the crap out me, though. Cycling at night around Hyde Park Corner / through V...

NEW WORD "A word I like at the moment is calenture. It was a condition where sailors who had been at sea for a long time would get the ...

CHANCE & TIME & CONNECTING The following passage was in the line notes of a Richard Hawley album. No need to paraphrase him. The fe...

AUTUMN "All of us have been dying, hour by hour, since the moment we were born. Realizing this, let all things be placed in their prope...

SPEAK, MEMORY The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eterni...

LOVE "Yeah, I heard a funny thing Somebody said to me You know that I could be in love with almost everyone I think that people are The...

OX BELLY STEW Spent five days over Easter in Hungary and a couple of days cycling through the countryside. Just collected the photos, sadly...

HUMAN CONDITION - THOM GUNN* *Further to 'Staff Room' entry, which reminded me of this... Now it is fog. I walk Contained within my ...

DAVID BYRNE Back in the 80s, there were some good bands. It wasn't only Kylie, Stock Aitken and Waterman, 'NOW! THat's What I C...