I recently made a most remarkable discovery. Sherlock Holmes, had he been with me, would have been proud. If I had told Miss Marple about it later over a cup of tea, she would have patted me on the knee and said, ‘Well done dear.’ Heck, even Horatio Caine, might have taken me aside, raised […]
I love London.I am sitting on a bench eating my chicken and salad sandwich overlooking Hammersmith Bridge, with my friend Kingston. He is from New Zealand. An old Jamaican dude sitting next to us tells us all he knows about promiscuity of information – the worst of which is committed by doctors and nurses. I […]
Every now and again much joy and laughter is sprinkled on my relationship with the Norwegian when we jointly discover a word or phrase with an amusing translation. A Cat nap is a hen’s blink for example. The latest such titillation was finding out the kitchen implement used to lift a fried egg onto a […]
A particular song currently being played on the radio has weaselled its catchy little way into my brain – Maria Carey in a a fluffy number called Touch my Body. It presents the usual gubbins R&B lyrics… ‘I’ll treat you like a teddy bear, you won’t wanna go nowhere’‘I want you to caress me, like […]
No one likes a bully and when a corporate giant gets headlines like this from Publishing Weekly – ‘Amazon to Force POD Publishers to Use BookSurge’ – you have to wonder what is going on. The nub of the story according to PW is that Amazon.com is forcing print on demand publishers to use its […]
Jen S. Wight 