Articles...
Dec 13 2007
HIS True expertise lay in what grew upwards through the earth, but the slim young man who had suffered from a sickly chest as a child, was staring into the hole made by the rude and uninvited arrival of “doodlebug”....
Dec 12 2007
HE WAS, of course, a pirate, who kept his wooden leg in a shed at the back of the house....
Dec 11 2007
THE average chap would not have been able to name any of his tunes. For he was not the composer of breezy melodies to be hummed on the bus to work....
Dec 10 2007
THE summer hols had only just begun, but George, Dick, Julian and Anne were vexed and although Timmy was wagging his tail as hard as he could, it made no difference....
Dec 7 2007
HER descent from Attila the Hun, on her mother’s side, was, close observers believed, rather less bumpy than her marriage to one of the most brilliant English novelists of the 20th century, though it could well be argued that he also suffered considerable bumpings along the way....
Dec 6 2007
WHEN she was a teenager, the hotelier’s daughter from suburban Cheshire developed a passion for the buckskins worn by Davy Crockett, but many years would pass before she was allowed to dress a pair of gay cowboys....
Dec 5 2007
HIS domed head and quizzical, close-eyed gaze from heavily-rimmed glasses suggested a wise owl of superior feather, appraising the lower life forms grubbing about beneath his perch....
Dec 4 2007
IT WAS a good job the writer with the knack for a conspiracy theory was fascinated by religious history, because his first book on the subject was so successful that his publishers were keen for him to pen many more....
Nov 30 2007
IT WAS generally accepted that the profoundly deaf man was hot on scallops, and his understanding of the taxonomy of barnacles and sea sponges remains much admired in those circles, where marine biologists gather to examine the contents of their sieves....
Nov 29 2007
THE generous and sometimes menacing clouds, which puffed from his trusty pipe, added greatly to the “smoky rooms”, then the inevitable plotting dens of leftward-leaning politicians....
