There was one, exactly one, incredibly small silver linings to the goslings' weekends with their father: it gave Ali legitimate time to herself. Not that she was likely to spend it on herself, but it might almost look that way. It was a beautiful early-spring day, windy but bright, and she was cruising up the Maine coast in her gorgeous little ( Read more... )

Auctions are good for a number of things, generally things relating to the collection of the old and obscure. Anything old and obscure will eventually find its way to an auction: art, furniture, clothing, books, machinery, jewellery, and collections of odd things so difficult to classify they usually get lumped into "miscellanea". Some of these ( Read more... )