I was shifting rugs around in our French house here last week, and I noticed that at some […]
Category Archive: At the End of the Day
There is a wonderful French adjective, ‘doux’. It has, at the last count, about eight milli0n meanings – […]
A word to the wise. When you put your back seats down – the better to fill the […]
Last night I stayed in a house where there lives a three-legged cat. Tonight I’m with Londoners whose […]
This is my last night in the house that has been Slogger’s Roost ever since the blog started. […]
The greedy inefficiency of lawyers, bankers and bureaucrats that this site (and millions of others) try to illustrate […]
There are some news stories where one knows it is offside to laugh, poke fun, or otherwise parody […]
All in a Day’s Words The Telegraph came up with a crackerjack collective noun for migrants earlier today, […]
When you move house at my age, the business of what to take and what to chuck requires […]
Once again I am indebted to Butch the Bollocks Impaler for pointing me at some stuff over the […]
A reality cheque is something one doesn’t want to write because of the costs involved; but it is […]
David Cameron told us today that he finds the appearance of horsemeat in 100% beefburgers on sale in […]