
I wrote last July about how pleased I was that my miniature orchid had started to flower again. Nearly six months later, it’s still flowering. Now tell me orchids are difficult to grow.

Dean Street Press will bring out a new batch of reissued crime mysteries in March. I couldn’t wait to get stuck in to Kind Hearts and Coronets…
I see that today Talking Pictures is showing a film (1945) based on Dorothy Whipple’s novel They Were Sisters. It’s a bleak book, about three…
I noticed that the film of Mrs Miniver was on at some ridiculously early hour, so recorded it for later viewing. I knew I’d seen it before,…