Ecstatic Gaucho

Two small anecdotes:
Turning on the radio this Wednesday morning, I just managed to catch the BBC cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew reflect on the England cricket captain’s gigantic ego: “Kevin Pietersen is the sort of man who would join the navy, so the world could see him.”
One of the lovely Autumn’s colleagues overheard two oldsters in [...]

Programme from Oscar Barrett’s Dick Whittington, December 1898 – February 1899
This Christmas hols I tried to find traces of my mysterious great-grandfather John. Not much is known about him despite searching the nationalarchives.gov. All that is known is that he died of consumption (as was the wont of 19c artists) at a young age in [...]