Admiral Cod

Source: Tommy Ton    

"There's only one great evil in the world today. Despair.” Evelyn Waugh , Vile Bodies (1930)

Gentlemen Stand Up Please !

Eton College, 1960s 

“Isao had never felt that he might want to be a woman. He had never wished for anything else but to be a man, live in a manly way, die a ma...

  Passionate bright young thing (1913-1938-201?) David Bowie sat in an overstuffed armchair in his suite aboard the ship Ellinis , ret...

'To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.' Evelyn Waugh , Brideshead Revisited (1945)

'Throughout history cashmere has been a luxury cloth, prized for its warmth, light weight, and sensation of softness against the skin. R...

The other morning, entering an office building, I failed to hold open the door for a female coming up behind me. She emitted a tiny gasp w...

From the publisher: 'Foreign volunteers fought on behalf of General Franco and the Nationalists in the Spanish Civil War for a right...

One you lock the target Two you bait the line Three you slowly spread the net And four you catch the man - ' Headhunter ', Fron...

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