Going solo
My husband died last year and after 38 years of marriage I had to find a social life and friends. As a pensioner one has to make the effort, people are not going to come knocking at your door! The lib ...
Author Archives: Mark
“Trippingly on the tongue…”
Shakespeare played a major role in the transformation of the English language. He contributed more phrases and sayings to the English language than any other individual, and most of them are still in ...
Build them smaller
On the front page of issue 285 (March 2016) you mention the matter of ‘house hoarding’ by older people whose children have left home, leaving them with houses larger than they need. As you rightly say ...
A dramatisation of the controversy surrounding Eileen Gray’s famous house
Joyce Glasser reviews The Price of Desire (May 27, 2016), Cert. 12A, 108 min. In 2009, a small, brown leather armchair once owned by Yves St Laurent was auctioned for 19.5 million Euros – vastly ...