I consider myself to have an enquiring mind, but sometimes serendipitous discoveries make you stop dead and wonder just how you’ve managed to keep up with this self deception for so long. Forty ++ years ago I went up to Oxford where the three  university terms, starting in October are called Michaelmas, Hilary and Trinity. […]

Much travelling to see family in December left us perfectly happy to be on our own to see in the New Year. We even practised switching off of the TV to sit companionably side by side reading books. Alice Thomson in The  Times writes that last year she had a target of reading a book […]