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BEYOND THE AIRING CUPBOARD
Book reviews, poems, general musings and more!
Some men never think of it,
You did. You’d come along
And say you’d nearly bought me flowers
But something went wrong.
It made me smile and hug you then.
Now I can only smile.
But, look, the flowers you nearly bought
Have lasted all this while.
Wendy Cope
Latest Posts
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Done
That is it. I am done with Hardy … Thomas that is. I was tempted back to my teenage enjoyment of the Hardy novels by loving the writing of David Nicholls. And, as had been said before, he is consumed by this late Victorian writer. I was looking up the ‘Tess’ quote that Nicholls uses […]
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PG Wodehouse
PG Wodehouse died 50 years ago today. I am at the moment watching a TV series with Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry as the perfect casting for the two characters but I also remember excellent dramatisations of the books broadcast on radio 4 long ago. Several times whilst teaching I successfully used the Wodehouse books […]
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Being Taken Back
Reading (and hugely enjoying) The Memory Library by Kate Storey, (see Readings) the books used within the narrative did indeed take me back. I was inspired to try Virginia Woolf again and I was directed to begin with Mrs Dalloway. I found it an enchanting read, almost a love song to London. It was published […]
I grew up in freezing cold Kent in the 1950s and early 60s. The airing cupboard was the one place to curl up comfortably and read. The cat sometimes chose to join me. He too knew where it was warm …
Susan Brice