ElsinoreThe good-enough Austen couple!Yesterday on a Jane Austen subreddit found one of those highly inaccurate and illogical but pleasant-to-spend-time-on Austen personality…Oct 6, 2023Oct 6, 2023
ElsinoreNot SkeeterI just came across a post talking about the passing of the actor who played Dumbledore which happened recently. I also know him from a…Oct 6, 2023Oct 6, 2023
ElsinoreBus scenes and Church muralsOn my way back from work today, I got into a bus that had just one empty seat and this was in the last row. The right hand window seat was…Aug 14, 2023Aug 14, 2023
ElsinoreThe shortest route to despair.If you believe you don’t need to be taught any more tricks on this topic than what you have already mastered and are worried that this…May 1, 2021May 1, 2021
ElsinoreSo how do you picture this dream wedding?Excuse me but there’s no dream here to share snapshots of. I don’t go around picturing myself getting married all day.Apr 21, 20211Apr 21, 20211
ElsinoreGoing soft in this age?I recently attended a soft skills training where they taught me how to communicate better. A strange goal for a session, don’t you think…Aug 9, 2020Aug 9, 2020
ElsinoreFloss — Finesse, flooding and foreshadowing.I have just climbed ashore off a re-read of the Mill on the Floss. A book that’s steeped in emotions that are at once keen and numbing…Aug 8, 2020Aug 8, 2020
ElsinoreIf Darcy’s proposal were an email, is that construct good?I’m writing this with one of my favourite books of all time (and yours too, I hope, for there can’t be two opinions there), propped on one…Aug 7, 2020Aug 7, 2020
ElsinoreWhen did you last hear a story that felt…new?If you think that’s not a question easily answered, try this. When did you last hear a story that was new?Aug 2, 2020Aug 2, 2020