Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 1 December 2020 A few of my more random reviews of terrific books are: 1 Roy Lewis The Evolution Man (also Sci Fi), 2 Sean Dooley (on birds), 3 Giulia Enders Gut, 4 Marie Kondo Tidying, 5 Secret City (Canberra spy series), 6 Atoms, Bytes, Genes (21st C convergence in science), 7 EM Foner Union Station …
Dog Story
Featured image: Jack, Dukie and Denise Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 20 September 2016 Doggie Tails Original title, which I much prefer. House-sitting, Buckinghamshire, UK Setting The Chiltern Hills form a chalk escarpment in South East England. We were house-sitters in two locations here in Buckinghamshire during the summer of 2014. The first place we spent one week, had a …
What travel costs 4: eight months in Europe
Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony 30 July 2015 I started my series of travel writing with a bee in my bonnet about what things cost. In once sense it is a nice snapshot in time of how much the type of long leisurely travel we tended to do did cost. It made me learn the subtle art of forensic accounting …
British Food — an appraisal of the middle
Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony May 2015 Trip to the UK 16 July to 16 September 2014 In Britain or in far-flung outposts around the world in what either used to be the British Empire or in countries influenced by Britain, one meets the British. And when the conversation turns to food, the Brits inevitably bore you about how …
False memories and The Mill on the Floss
Featured Image: From Mill on the Floss Book Cover Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 29 April 2015 Although, I’ve written book reviews on Classic Science Fiction, a few on Detective & Crime Fiction and three on food writing. I haven’t dwelled on anything literary except for four articles: 1 False Memories and the Mill on the Floss, 2 The …
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