Habituation is a process of change. It reminds me of those temples (where are they? Indonesia?) gradually overtaken by forest; so that Buddh...

So. We got a Wii Fit! Badger bought one in a Moment of Valentine’s Day Magnificence!! And a great delight it is too. Sometimes – does this h...

While our new Spanish lodger was chatting to his family on Skype, his wash cycle finished. As I happened to be passing through the kitchen a...

Today I was chatting online with an Australian, hearing word of the terrible fires that have claimed so many lives. People burnt up huddled...

‘ Ha’ you mark’d but the fall o’ the snow, before the soil hath smutch’d it? ’ Words of Ben Jonson, read when I was 16, that return unbidden...