Wait a minute Mr Postman

    Night Train(Commentary for a G.P.O. Film, July 1935)          by W.H. Auden (1907 – 1973)                  

This is the Night Mail crossing the border,Bringing the cheque and the postal order,

Letters for the rich, letters for the poor,The shop at the corner and the girl next door.

Pulling [...]

Bitching

Being of the female persuasion, I have thus been imbued with an almost pathological need to bitch. In much the same way that I assume boys had seperate lessons at school in ‘how to undo a bra one-handed’, ‘never calling when you say you will’ and ‘saying things you don’t really mean’, I have to [...]