War Blog

Stand by to repel all boarders. Help desk beckons and I stuck here for the morning. They have to end this soon; it is disheartening. Brain the size of a Planet and all that - again. It is like being a Carpenter and having to clean out stables. Does this count as reasonable comment as I have made the comment to the relevant authorities and been brick-walled? What to write about now?

Did you know that George Orwell was obsessed with the perfect cup of tea? Read this on how to make it. There was a radio play on the other week in which a couple of modern sound-engineers eavesdropped on George Orwell and Louis MacNeice by way of a clandestine tape made of them while they were working for the BBC. A Large portion of the tape was taken up with Orwell discussing how to make tea so his obsession is well known. They gave Orwell a wheezing and consumptive voice which I am not sure he really had. It was a nice touch to have one of the Sound Engineers played by the actor playing Orwell (Jon Glover) though of course Chris Langham is now the definitive Orwell.