Machine mugging

I put my sixty cents in the machine and request a Snickers. (tangential rant: When I was a child this bar used to be called Marathon; a name which conjures up sport and stamina and maybe ancient Greece and war too. Then they changed the name to Snickers; which for me sound likes “sniggers”, or [...]

Browsers

I love bookshops. I hate bookshops. I love browsing, making discoveries, and simply taking pleasure in the knowledge that such a variety of interesting and beautiful books is available to me. I hate seeing so many books I want to read and then thinking of the piles of books sitting on the shelves at home, [...]