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A Ghostly Gathering
My Small Child’s Halloween costume yesterday is today’s inspiration. Originally, she planned to be a little Victorian ghost, but after a visit to Disneyland, Paris, back in September, she changed her...
View ArticleNook’s Pick of the Grandpas
With the trend for adopting the names of our great-grandparents showing signs of gathering pace, last week I shared my pick of “Granny names.” Today it’s Grandpa’s turn. Just as with the girls, some,...
View ArticleWhat the Dickens!
Tomorrow is the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of Charles Dickens, probably the greatest of all nineteenth century novelists — and a contender for the greatest novelist of all time. His works...
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