Rambling Aficionado Gifts

Country Pub Walk

The experienced backpacker.

"Meet The Author"

King Henry and his Cheshire bride

Kid to mom: 'Tell me again about the time you helped fortress a city, subdue hostile fire and got home and baked us all raspberry strudels.'

Butterfly herders of the wild west.

Stephen Spender.

"Just one more thump. . . just one more thump."

'Don't worry, you're safe. I started my diet today.'

Gunter Grass

"If I Can Make One Critic Smile..."

Never.....teach your dog to fly.

Noel Coward.

'He taught me the importance of taking a walk each day.'

'He speaks for our entire generation. Pity he's such a bore...'

My Literary Influences

Frontispiece to 'Dombey and Son'

"Wait, wait, back up, back up. Who the #!@! is George Orwell?"

Donald Trump Tells a Joke...

Sherlock Holmes Museum: No Hounds.

Ironing Punctuation

"I really look forward to this evening's walk."

'Oh no! Is this a blogger I saw before me?'

"Your appendix is fine. It's your glossary I'm worried about."

'Excellent job, Fenwick, especially the part where you employ Magic Realism to fudge third-quarter earnings!'

"This car is very fast and very expensive. Just how bad is your midlife crisis?"

Library

A vicar is reading 'The Great Begatsby' written by Abraham.

"You have to pick the places you don't walk away from."—Joan Didion, Penny, Joan Didion.

'I don't know whether to put it in for the Turner Prize or go for the Poet Laureate.'

"Well, the falcon cannot hear the falconer, but the rough beast found a piece of string so I don't know where that leaves us."

'Ignore them, Charlie. They're nothing but philistines. I liked your poetry, truly I did!'

"Jewelry store, visit our ATM."

Lord Byron

Samuel Beckett