A Degrees of Separation story and maunderings on the past.
Finished the Goldhill book on the Bensons yestereen, and he concludes with an anecdote from his time at Kings College Cambridge when the very elderly Dadie Rylands was still in residence, Rylands having been AC Benson's last crush (though Goldhill did not know at the time that he was going ( Read more... )

At the moment I am reading Decca's recently published letters - shrieking! roaring! do admit! (now, there was someone who Used Her Super-Powers of Tease for Good.)

And today had lunch with elderly lady who not only knew Decca, but stayed with her on Inch Kenneth! (island that was in the family, she bought out her sisters' shares with money that ( Read more... )