Flying With Hands

Samuel Pepys 1666 portrait by John Hayls Mr. Pepys's rather entertaining diary entries are popping up in my email inbox* these days, and...

"Prepare the sheep's head in the usual way."  So sayeth the rather unhelpful opening instructions to a recipe for Sheep's ...

  Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, Dear Reader! I wish for you Bright Things for the year ahead, as well as Peace and Prosperity. This pa...

  ... is for England Which is where Your Correspondent has lately been. It had been nearly twenty— count them —twenty years since the Pipist...

  Seeing the light In case you're wondering, Dear Reader, the Pipistrellos are still alive after seventeen months of No Carbs. After all...