Joy and Forgetfulness

Some weeks ago, Mrs Kinch and I went out to the Gaiety Theatre in Dublin to see "The Importance of being Earnest". It was a super...

- an extra shiny sixpence to the boy who can tell me the truly appalling pun behind this picture relating to the paragraph below After a ra...

A Britains 4.7 inch Naval Gun " The present writer had been lunching with a friend—let me veil his identity under the initials J. K. J....

Skinners Horse at exercise. Joshua Reynolds Gwatkin . c1840 Sadly, I have not had much time to devote to my Indian project in the last few w...

The finding of the house was not without its challenges, but we've accomplished that and found one that while it has obvious faults is e...

Captain Colin MacKenzie by James Sant 1820-1916 There has been previous little time in the last week, though the concept of the week is beco...

The Island of Corsica from the Gallery of the Maps painted by Friar Ignazio Danti (Savage included, not to scale) One of the many wonders of...