Observations and obsessions.

Lists, trees, maps, and scrapbooks

Fun for Boys and Girls

The Colour of Monkery

Essences; for perfumery

Pastel Pencils; for art shop trawls

Antique names for things

Antique names for diseases

Antique names for wines

Perfumes replicating books and churches

A sexual geography of London

A checklist of British passes and cols

Huxley; The Complete Essays / Nonfiction

Freud; for bookshop trawls

Ballard; for bookshop trawls

Huxley; for bookshop trawls

Well Loved Tales

Pronouncing British placenames

Family Trees: The Town That Went Mad