The Goldmine.
  • Spy vs Spy
    • At Fox River
    • Patty and the Tet Offensive
    • Pale and Interesting >
      • More pale and interesting
      • Older, still pale, possibly only interesting to a couple of people
    • The Heckler and Koch Affair
    • Spy vs Spy
  • Peeling the Onion
  • Old unhappy far-off things
    • Wipers and the Ypres League
    • Fanny and Cobber.
    • In Memoriam
  • Slightly Saltirical
    • A Dexter Hand
    • The Boar-Worshippers
  • Taken by the Hand
    • Geranium Days
    • The Lockhart Papers
    • A Martial Aspect
    • O Perfect Love >
      • Sonnets Unplugged
      • Stout Cortez
    • Tea and an Ascot
  • Childe Harold
    • Monikers >
      • The Sandman and Sleipnir
    • Bos Indicus
    • Three things in a field >
      • Dance With A Bull
  • Eureka (Stockade)
    • Two for Joy
    • At the Bottom of the Garden >
      • Coins of the Realm
  • Superstitious Nonsense
    • Leaves of Tea
  • The Best of Times
    • The Space Race >
      • C.P.Snow
  • Sorry luv, I missed that.
  • Valley Girls
    • Britten, B et al >
      • Gammon and Spinach
      • The Blue Flowers >
        • The Beautiful People
        • The girls from 9DY Rangi Ruru >
          • The Fires of Hell and other Works of Art
        • The Cat's Paw and other Feline Fables
        • Flowers in Bloom
      • The Moon and Daisies
      • Snowmaiden Revelry
  • Sitting on Custard
  • The Long White Grass
    • Somewhere...
  • I have pictures
  • The Queen's Cake
  • A Portrait by Hoppner
  • The Iron Fist.
    • Slow twitching gams.
  • Whips and Whatnot
  • Showering with Friends

One May morning...

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This is the issue of the Paris Review that came out about the time I was born. (It inspired the tweet 'perhaps the loveliest spring of all'. Rather good, I thought.) You can buy a copy of this issue of Paris Review for about $100. It would make a nice birthday present. The birthday clues: Lusitania, Tchaikovsky and Browning.
I am sorry to say that I have not been to Paris or anywhere else in France but I have been to New Caledonia. (That may not be quite the same thing but there were Frenchmen there,) 
I was due on the fourth but that wasn't entirely convenient. I was a fashionable three days late.


1958

The Cold War.
Britain (in space?).
My birth.
The intellectual climate.
Various other matters.
Coming soon (not 1958, obviously. That has been).

And a little later. . .

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Erik at the Harlequin Public House on my birthday (2014).

January 7th 1982

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Now that's a distant memory. Taken at Mona Vale, Christchurch, on the date mentioned. The knife used (bone-handled, Sheffield steel etc) had been employed for cutting wedding cakes before by an assortment of family members. It had also spent a few years lurking under the veranda at 'Glen Oak' as well. One of those little mysteries that occur in the life of a knife.