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The Ucheldre Centre have just sent me the leaflet with details of Ben's Dreame fortnight - an Elizabethan-style adaptation of A Midsumme...

The better the day, the better the deed, as Shakespeare didn't say. But for everything he did say Ben amd I  are thrilled to announce t...

One of the outcomes of my August 2017 weekend on the English language was a request to have further days focusing on topics in greater depth...

One never knows, with a new idea like this, whether it will appeal, or whether the people who have asked for it will actually come, given al...

I've frequently been asked to put on a summer course for people unable to attend the various lectures I give to schools, literary festi...

I've been pulled out of blog semi-retirement by a correspondent who watched the BBC TV show QI last week. It had a sequence on difficul...