Yesterday, I heard Nothing Compares 2U playing on the radio and I was reminded of how bloody fantastic the first line is. I've menti...

As I was preparing my late and lenten supper last night, I was reminded of the word pilgarlic . You see, I was peeling garlic at the time. ...

Another in the series of pub poems (previous entries here and here ). This one is from the Lamb on Lamb's Conduit Street in Bloomsbury...

Pausing on Lamb's Conduit Street yestereve I saw a troop of Morris dancers waving their sticks about. For those of you who have never...

An American* chap called Barack Obama gave a speech yesterday in which he lyrically waxed upon the origins of things like liberty and the ...

Last night I went to see All's Well That Ends Well at the Globe . A line in the play made me think of the Beatles and Our Mutual Frien...

Wink used to mean shut both your eyes for a while. So when Shakespeare wrote : When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see, For all the...