The plot for the novel (briefly): the last child has gone off to University and immediately the mother takes to her bed. She stays there for a year and records her emotions. Can anyone what this novel...
I have a stoneware pot/vase which I think is studio pottery. I'm trying to identify the potter. On the rim of the base there is a small stamp which looks to me like a stylized owl. Any clues as to how...
I have a Hewlett Packard Compaq610 laptop running Windows 7 which has worked fine for the last 12 months. I feed the audio output through an external amp from the mini jack headphone socket. At first...
I am doing a display, in a secondhand book shop, to promote Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October and I am looking to find books by or about people who have survived this disease. These are the...
I'm trying to recall the name of a children's annual(?) which contained a story about a fairy called Bluebell who had a cold and passed it on the all her/his friends. I half-remember it from my...
I've just read a description of a book of stories by Oswald Couldrey (The Mistaken Fury and other Lapses) as "good examples of the post-Wildean aesthetic revival in vogue just before Word War I". Can...
Can anyone help with the title/author of a poem about clocks ....... I only have a small fragment (which may not be completely accurate) .......... "Clocks for the kitchen, clocks for the hall, high...