A thing of beauty

Michael Sowa, painter of genius.

Bargepole's back

Now available in paperback is Michael Bywater's Lost Worlds. Buy it. Now. Here's a writer who deserves his royalties. And you'll enjoy it too. Trust me. Would I lie to you? Lie with you maybe, but to you, never.

A word for it

We all know, don't we my little ones, that it's a fallacy that the Inuit have three hundred words for snow? Utter bunkum. Yet how many words do we have for the four-wheeled things that trundle about the place? I'll bet Nanook and Nell never spend their nights in the igloo wondering why it is that in English there are three hundred words for car.

But some things do need a word and there isn't always an English one. Have a look at this and chortle into your snifter as you encounter Johnny Foreigner's weird world of words.

The Gashlycrumb Tinies

Just the sort of thing for teaching the tots their alphabet is Edward Gorey's marvellous Gashlycrumb Tinies.
Coincidently, I went to Gorey once. Went with the Flame-Haired Temptress. You'd know her if you saw her.

Nihilartikel and Mountweazel

Don't believe all you read......
Nihilartikel and Mountweazel

Beowulf

Just about anything you will ever need to know about Beowulf.