Peter Household - things that have interested me

This placard  from Boston is m y absolute favourite from the biggest science event in history, the global March for Science on 22nd Apri...

Ha! … bet you thought it was going to be something about the first six weeks of Trump. No, what concerns me right now is news in the Daily M...

Jane Austen was very rude about Self Control , a novel by Mary Brunton that came out in 1811, the same year as Austen's first, Sense a...

I'm going to tell you about my worst memory from school.  This would be when I was six.  For some reason I associate it with Christmas, ...

“For what justice is there in this: that a nobleman, a goldsmith, a banker, or any other man, that either does nothing at all, or, at best, ...

Two months since I wrote anything here, what’s all this delay? Surely I can come up with some insightful and entertaining bon mots pertaini...

I've come across another word that describes itself.  Stare at awkward long enough and I think you'll agree with me. What a...