Georgiana Podsnap's journal

One commonplace I'm guilty of spouting a lot, especially in spring and summer, is "autumn has its uses, because then you're not...

In spite of having read both Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies  and enjoyed them (though I was shocked by Thomas Cromwell's behaviour i...

"Who has an under-butler these days?" Oh, I don't know. An earl who wants to win the annual cricket match? An earl with a bu...

As I've already confessed, I have a sneaking fondness for the prequel/sequel/retelling from another angle genres, in short: the "pa...

I see trees of green, red roses too, I see sexy villains on screen and page, and I think to myself: what a wonderful world. Yes, there's...

Ha - at least that's one more New Year's resolution kept. I somehow missed watching Cinderella in the cinema (I caught it later on ...

Oh dear. Spoke to soon, didn't I? Here I was, thinking that Ross Poldark showed healthy signs of self-awareness and that he didn't s...