Welcome, dear reader, to January. January is a time to look back upon the dunghill of a year that has passed, and to look forward to the mi...

Another circle around the sun is complete, and nobody will tell me how many more we must do. The earth is back where it started and there ...

If you are squiriferous you are like a squire, which is to say that you are  gentlemanly . It's a fun word, if only because it is redol...

The following comes from George MacDonald Fraser's Quartered Safe Out Here . MacDonald Fraser, who would become famous for the Flashman...

Listening to a snatch of the cricket commentary last night, I was informed that the contest in Melbourne was gruelling . I confess that fro...

Today is not boxing day. Once upon a time, there was a thing called a Christmas box. A Christmas box was a box with a small hole cut in i...

On matters spiritual, as on all others, the Inky Fool defers to Thomas Browne , and in particular to Pseudodoxia Epidemica [ Popular Misco...