As a recent essay on Trousers was so well received, I have been urged by my followers to work my way up the human body and discuss shirts. Shirts are a covering for the upper body for those of us not of the football hooligan fraternity who prefer to remain shirtless at all times. Two [...]
AT THE AGE of fifty-five, Norman Plummer had honed to a fine degree the art of failure. Plummer by name, but Cheam Station ticket clerk by occupation, Norman had failed to grow a completely joined-up moustache which resembled a blurred, follicular SOS in morse code above his thin upper lip. He had succeeded, however, in [...]