History Elf

If you look up to the large grey slab on top of this building which was put up there a long time ago, you would learn that the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley once lived here, briefly. He was running away from his debts. You certainly did not want him as a customer. The headline on … Read more

June 2023 As a child in the 1960s, I loved the humorous poems about cats in Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats by a poet called T.S. Eliot. From these brief lines, you can get a flavour of the delightful images conjured up for children: “Jellicle Cats wash behind their ears,Jellicle dry between their toes.” … Read more