Today's posts

The poem today is ‘Last week’.  

In 1778 Samuel Johnson met an old friend from university, whose name was Oliver Edwards.   He hadn’t seen him for over 40 years although they both lived in London, and London in those days was not the huge city that it is today. Their meeting is recorded in the pages of Boswell and a couple of the things that Edwards said then have since become quotes.  Here is one of them.

‘You are a philosopher, Dr Johnson.  I have tried too in my time to be a philosopher; but I don’t know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in.’

Well, let a little cheerfulness break in, whatever you are trying to be.  It solves most things!

The letter from my terrace today is about stories and research.