Are you Elizabeth or are you Margaret?

And no, this has nothing to do with The Funeral. I’ve been watching The Crown and naturally I identify a … More

This and that and you know…share houses at fifty nine?

I’ve recently acquired two housemates. This after living in splendid isolation for three years or so (I can’t recall exactly) … More

And yet I choose to live here. There are pillars in the great cathedral of Seville, each the width of … More

I mean ice and fire, obviously. To wit, Iceland. I’m not in Iceland now. I’m in Australia, settling back into … More

Dear Penelope, Recently I have spent a week staying with my hospitable cousin and his wife in the Scottish Borders, … More

When Eurydice’s musician husband Orpheus jumps (or did he?) from a pleasure boat into Sydney Harbour and drowns, her first … More

This is Ludo. If you’re wondering, the location is HIS decision. My daughter (who’s always alert for cats) noticed him … More

After a hundred days of sunshine in southern Europe – it rained today! I never thought I’d be glad to … More

Being sick, alone, abroad, is shit. Sometimes literally (my daughter got fearfully sick when we arrived in Thessaloniki on a … More

I went to Crete because of a book and a puzzle. The book was Mary Renault’s The King Must Die/The … More