“They can live upon barley-meal without a morsel of meat from week-end to week-end, can these miserable Sawnies,” quoth another.

A blame game is taking place between Network Rail and the Football Association regarding the closure of the West Coast Main Line over the Easter Bank Holiday, which coincides with an FA Cup semi-final taking place at Wembley Stadium on April 16.

In robes of azure.

Every holiday when we were little we went to some cottage by the sea, to sandy Swedish beaches shelving gently into the water, saltspray roses in full bloom […]