Today's posts

 

The poem this week is ‘Processionària’.   As every year around this time the caterpillars are forming long processions as they come down from their nests in the pine trees and look for a safe place underground to spend the summer.

 

The letter from my terrace in Palma is number 31, ‘The passing year’. From September to Christmas and from Christmas to the summer the school year in Palma passed from one festival to another.

 

‘Johnson of London’. Here is part 18, ‘Oxford revisited’.   Johnson takes Boswell to see Oxford.