library

“A library in the middle of a community is a cross between an emergency exit, a life-raft and a festival. They are cathedrals of the mind; hospitals of the soul; theme parks of the imagination. On a cold rainy island, they are the only sheltered public spaces where you are not a consumer, but a…

fountain+pen

As a child I had to write with a fountain pen at school, that messy ink-stained affair with fingers, exercise books and blotting paper. Fortunately, by then ink cartridges had been invented. My grandfather used pens needing manual filling from a bottle of ink. I am the proud owner of one of his beautiful fountain…

wondrous words

The Mauvettes have had two sessions of presenting words with three different meanings each. Mauvette R. kept vigorously the score of our guesses of the correct explanation. In the first session we each offered three words, the second time we kept it to two words because we desperately wanted to play a boardgame too. In…

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