Overheard
As I was walking past the GPO, I heard an Australian say to a woman who was posting a letter, “Do you by any chance know what the Easter Rising is?”
That is all. Maybe you had to be there.
As I was walking past the GPO, I heard an Australian say to a woman who was posting a letter, “Do you by any chance know what the Easter Rising is?”
That is all. Maybe you had to be there.
January 20th, 2013 at 10:02
Once on a visit to Grasmere I was standing near a sign pointing to Wordsworth’s grave when I heard an American tourist say to her companion, “Who the hell is Wordsworth?”
January 21st, 2013 at 09:57
That is very good. I’m sure that some part of him would be pleased to reflect that he was right about the kind of people the nasty railway would bring.