Year 1854

This pretty much sums it all up. ‘I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish […]

Hammering time. Let’s go!

My father’s ultimate book, so I read it quite young. Some people get Harry Potter, I got this. ‘As things get worse and worse for us, we’re going to need more and more of all the things that give us relief and oblivion and all the things that get us revved up and excited. More […]