In the days when we had the luxury of making assignations, I was compulsively early. Despite my best efforts to time myself sensibly, I could
Some hold translations not unlike to bethe wrong side of the Turkish tapestry James Howell Have you ever used an online translator? The results can
When my first novel, the Seaborne, was published, it was the culmination of a lifetime. But how closely a book about another world would relate
Yet another fabulous Gwyn Thomas read. One of his earliest novels, set in the depression years in the Rhondda, it was thought too powerful for
A constable pulled an old man out of the canal, a regular drunk who had fallen in. He was dead. The next task, where to take him? On this occasion, the Mill Lane Dead House was not an option. He and his fellow officers had talked about it for days. The reason? Lying on a slab was the body of a man, an unknown sailor.
Background As discussed in a previous article Wales faced profound changes at the turn of the 20th century. The percentages of Welsh speakers declined and
We are walking lexicons. In a single sentence of idle chatter we preserve Latin, Anglo-Saxon, Norse; we carry a museum inside our heads, each day
I love Gwyn Thomas’s work. This is one I’ve just discovered and is typical of his humour. Here’s an example of his description of a
A constable pulled an old man out of the canal, a regular drunk who had fallen in. He was dead. The next task, where to take him? On this occasion, the Mill Lane Dead House was not an option. He and his fellow officers had talked about it for days. The reason? Lying on a slab was the body of a man, an unknown sailor.
‘Jack the Razor Grinder’ morphed into Mad Jack Matthews. His wife had helped to murder a woman in one of the low-class beer houses off
We shall not cease from explorationAnd the end of all our exploringWill be to arrive where we startedAnd know the place for the first time
A witty saying proves nothing. Voltaire Whatever you are doing, edit it right down, and see what you end up with. For example, how about
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