Back in the summer of 2018, I found myself offering some guidance to my grandson who, for his A Level studies, was then in the business of making a literary comparison between The Old Ways by Robert Macfarlane and Edward Thomas’ The South Country. A lovely hard-back copy of the latter had been on my […]
I think it’s always interesting to look at things you wrote long ago; they come from the mind & pen of a different ‘I’, or a different cluster of ‘I’s. Re-reading it all, you start thinking: ‘What’s different and what’s the same and what’s happened in between to make it so?’ And then ‘What of […]
In an essay called ‘In Praise of Idleness’, Bertrand Russell says that he thinks ‘…there is far too much work done in the world, that immense harm is caused by the belief that work is virtuous…’ He hopes that ‘the leaders of the YMCA will start a campaign to induce good young men to do […]
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