Photo, The Mirror Newsgroup Tonight I cannot write of pretty things. It is too cold. I've lived in London and in remote countrysi...

painting by Apollinari Mikhailovich Vasnetsov There are few things in life which we love in our youth and feel the same affection for y...

Icicles on a thatched cottage nearby As most of England is covered in a hard frost and snow is foretold for this weekend it is not su...

Alice and The Caterpillar meet by a mushroom John Tenniel Epilogue to Through the Looking Glass A boat, beneath a sunny sky ...

Agatha Christie was certainly right - you never know what will happen in an English village. Still, it's not every day that a gyp...

The antique dealer who sells at the market had a great stand on Wednesday! Markets are just one of the many folkloric aspects which I...

Shhhh - gather round and listen carefully This is the tale of a magical bookshop, Barter Books,  and how what they discovered which had...