The other day, I was in the car driving the way I always do, like a bat out of hell…
Liver with fava beans and a good chianti, or a good Amarone, if you prefer the literary version to the…
I recently dreamt I had gone to a party in pyjamas. In case you don’t follow, let me explain –…
Rivalry. The feeling of restless and prolonged animosity. Certain rivalries are only destructive. Others, however, are pretty beneficial and…
Do you know what Feis Ile is? Feis ile is the biggest annual festival on the island of Islay, famous…
Manners make a man. This is what the British writer William Horman wrote in his book Vulgaria in 1519 –…
My daughter is studying Brazilian folklore at school. Yesterday, she came to tell me that her favourite folk character is…
Hiraeth. I couldn’t start this post any other way, but with ‘hiraeth’. The Welsh equivalent of our untranslatable Portuguese…
Ah, the White-headed eagle – a beautiful, strong and fierce animal, at the top of the food chain, feared and…
Today, on the way to work, my car told me it was up for a service. The electronic dumping control…