Yatterings

One Hundred and One Dalmations (1956) by Dodie Smith is a curious there and back again tale (or should that be tail?) which is somewhat more saccharine than the Disney film (or at least my memories of it).
When Cruella de Vil steals 15 puppies from the Dearlys’ dogs, Pongo and Missis Pongo, and takes [...]

One thing  that has puzzled me for ages is the opening of the Asterix books. In each on there is  a paragraph about the only Gaulish village being surrounded by four Roman camps. Is this an exaggeration of the Resistance or part of general French culture.
Reading the post war literature chapter in Kay, Cave [...]