April tweets

Just the usual load of nonsense. (2019/05/07)

March tweets

More Czechs, Spike Jones, Brexit, burning Guy, Child Ballads, copyright, Robin Hood's two pricks, and so on. (2019/04/02)

Peter the Great’s April Fool’s jokes

Of dwarves, arson, stammerers, and binge drinking. (2019/04/01)

How to write an intermezzo in the style of Willem Wilmink

With a translation of "Een jongen krijgt een meisjesbrief." (2019/03/04)

Organ-grinding tweets for February

More untruths & idle opinions. (2019/03/04)

All around his bed

A hospital mini-odyssey. (2019/02/26)

January tweets

(2019/02/01)

A walk from Petersfield over the South Downs to Bishop’s Waltham

From the banks of the Rother (almost) via Stroud, Ramsdean, the source of the Meon (just about), Frogmore, East Meon, Old Winchester Hill, Droxford and Upper Swanmore to the source of the Hamble (very nearly). Featuring an erudite parrot, Edward Thomas and John Owen Smith, William Cobbett and Gilbert White, Charles II and Winston Churchill, Eric Ravilious and a 1791 chic doggerel tombstone, and two extinct railways. (2019/01/20)

Organ-grinding tweets for December

Xmas &c. (2019/01/03)

Epitaph of Bernard Fry, surgeon, in St. Mary’s graveyard, Stafford

Resurrectional doggerel for these dark days. (2018/12/25)

For drone-hunters, a walk westward from Gatwick airport to Ockley station

Dedicated to those at Gatwick considering tracking down and killing the source of their stasis. Features two good drinking establishments, the villages of Charlwood and Capel and the River Mole. (2018/12/21)