Georgiana Podsnap's journal

I might as well face it. 2016 will not be the year when I discover the joys of serious, mind-expanding, high-brow cultural ventures. There w...

Hey ho. I confess I've felt more alert and blog-ready in my life, but at least once during this Year of Work that is 2015 I should try t...

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...