Image by Paul Henri Degrande from Pixabay There’s a saying in French: Les cimetières sont pleins de gens irremplaçables (Cemeteries are full of irreplaceable people). A good example of antiphrasis – using a sentence to…
I’ve never worked in a shop. A pub, a hotel, a factory, yes, but never a shop. But the other day, I was thinking about Simon Retsky. He runs the superette – the small supermarket…
“What?” she cried. “Surely he wasn’t serious?” “No, Madame,” said Cheng, with an indulgent smile. “It was satire.” When it came to the villain in Mystery Manor, there could only be one nationality – Chinese.…
The second volume of The Rabbit Hole is every bit as flumbiferous as the first. Which is just as Alice likes, because weirdness abounds and the warren never ends. Are you out for revenge? You’ll need…
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Yes, I admit it. I like foie gras. I eat it with gusto. I wouldn’t say that I can’t get enough of it (because after a while you start to feel a bit sick),…
Story one: My wife sold a book on Amazon with a crease in the cover. In the description, she said there was a crease. The woman who bought it gave her a zero…
I must have seen the video clip for Tout Oublier (Forget Everything) by Angèle at least 30 times. That’s because when I’m on the cross-trainer at my local fitness centre, it’s on NRJ Hits every…
I type a lot of things into Google. This morning it was morel sausages, heroes of the Resistance and Nairobi. All very innocent stuff. But a few months back, it was the rather more sinister…