If you ever find yourself in a Chelsea pub on a match-day, try not to be too bullish about Arsenal FC’s chances of lifting silverware this decade. And don’t mock the goal-keeping prowess (or lack of it) of the home team. … Continue Reading >The British Pub; (a brief guide for the thirsty tourist)
(and you can take this how you will, but) these double-breasted hills, bronze fields of windblown corn, this scarpland north … Continue ReadingThis Land is Mine
Besides, all your married friends have horror tales of their own, and it is in bad taste to complain to a doctor about your pimple, when he is sitting on an elephantiasis of the scrotum. … Continue Reading >Letter to a Young Wife, from an Old