by Elin Woodger | May 22, 2025
In order to make a song a smash it is not enough for the singer to be on top of his form. The accompanist, also, must do his bit. And the primary thing a singer expects from his accompanist is that he shall play the accompaniment of the song he is singing. by Elin Woodger | May 22, 2025
In another moment she would be looking at him through her lorgnette: and England was littered with the shrivelled remains of curates at whom the lady bishopess had looked through her lorgnette. He had seen them wilt like salted slugs at the episcopal... by Elin Woodger | May 22, 2025
He and Rosie had always been like a couple of turtle-doves, but he knew only too well that when the conditions are right, a female turtle dove can express herself with a vigour a Caribbean hurricane might envy. by Elin Woodger | May 22, 2025
“There are moments, Jeeves, when one asks oneself, ‘Do trousers matter?’” “The mood will pass, sir.” by Elin Woodger | May 22, 2025
Years before, when a boy, and romantic as most boys are, his lordship had sometimes regretted that the Emsworths, though an ancient clan, did not possess a Family Curse. How little he had suspected that he was shortly to become the father of it.