Monthly Archives: April 2010

April 29, 2010

words, mysterious words on April 29th

Seventy-three years ago today, on April 29th 1937 – before the War,  before television, before many of today’s old ladies were born – Virginia Woolf sat in a BBC studio and spoke about the particular qualities of the English language. … Continue reading →

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April 25, 2010

Alan Sillitoe: the loneliness of the long-distance writer

Albert Finney in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning Sad news. Alan Sillitoe died this morning, aged 82. The novelist of Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner and 50 other books helped to define an era … Continue reading →

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April 25, 2010

life! life! writing and money

I know, I know! Those two things don’t normally go together. (Although I have recently acquired a hardback copy of Couples, the book that catapulted John Updike into millionairedom. I wish I could do that thing.) So… I’ve just re-entered … Continue reading →

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April 23, 2010

Perfect moving day spam!

It begins: “Lift your chest without surgery…”

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April 19, 2010

in which Ms Baroque demonstrates that one can collapse a whole four-storey house as easily as if it were made of cardboard! In only two days!

Well – okay, I admit it will probably take the full allotment of five days to get it utterly collapsed. But nonetheless, when we are done this four-storey house will fold up neatly as a newspaper and fit into the … Continue reading →

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