I learn a new word

Today, thanks to a blog I visited and enjoyed https://fullfrontispiece.wordpress.com/ I have learned a new word, Frontispiece. A frontispiece in books generally refers to a decorative or informative illustration facing a book's title page, being the verso opposite the recto title page. While some books depict thematic elements, other books feature the author's portrait as the...

Westward Ho!

The house clearance and tidy-up continues, and I must confess that I am feeling a little like Harry, Ron and Hermione in The Order of the Phoenix as they struggled to clean up Sirius' house; there's so much to be done that it doesn't seem as if I'm making any progress, though I know I...