October 2021

Oscar and Klynton are visiting us in Provence and a 100-degree heatwave has hit. There’s only one place to be

The English language as written today is often nearly incomprehensible on first reading

I pour myself a tumbler of rotgut and settle in with the names, these glorious names

They’re funny, the Swiss, known as dullards because they lack Italian fire and Spanish passion, but what would we do without them?

Tacitus made the Caledonian leader Calgacus remark that Romans ‘make a desert and call it peace’