Cherries are on Sale Again

I was going to try to be clever and reference a line from David Bowie's Is There Life on Mars?, where he mentions lemons being on sale again. I checked the lyrics and after all these years I was shocked to find that the line is actually "Lennon's on sale again". How blissfully we drift … Continue reading Cherries are on Sale Again →

Preparing for Winter

Wallace Stevens was right about having "a mind of winter". In my last post I wrote about the beauty of autumn, but within that hinted at some of the melancholy of the season. We have enjoyed the soft and colourful parts of autumn, rather like focusing on the feathered fletching of an arrow. Now we … Continue reading Preparing for Winter →