I was in Chichester Cathedral yesterday and I saw the Arundel Tomb , the one Philip Larkin wrote a poem about. It was rather a shock to...

On the seventeenth of May 1900 the Siege of Mafeking was relieved. After 217 days of attack from the Boers the British re-enforcements ...

To make no bones about something is a rather odd phrase when you think about it, especially as even modern medical science is unable (to...

Why bother reading when you have Youtube? Here is me discussing Shakespeare's birthday.  

I saw a macaronic film last night, which of course relates directly to macaroni cheese, Yankee Doodle's befeathered hat, and a penguin....

I was rather astonished to discover that a cigar is, probably, so called because it resembles a cicada. So saith the OED anyhow. You see, t...

I was watching Bringing Up Baby on Friday night. It's a classic Cary Grant film from 1939, and it reminded me of the word gay . Nobo...