John Baker’s Blog

Mario, the postman in the film Il Postino, in an effort to win the heart of Beatrice Russo, steals some poems from Pablo Neruda. Later he justifies his action by telling the poet:
 
Poems don’t belong to those who write them. They belong to those who need them.
This begs the question of the text with a [...]

I know it’s boring but this blog is broken at the moment. I’m working on it and it should look fine from your end, but I don’t have constant access at my end. It might be that, if you post a comment, I won’t see it immediately and it may hang around in cyberspace for [...]

We were at The Shed as part of an invited audience to help Graham Fellows record a half-hour programme for Radio Four.
Fellows is a British comedian, perhaps better known to many people in his incarnation of John Shuttleworth, an aspiring singer/songwriter from Sheffield in South Yorkshire, and a bit of a nerd.
The recording for Radio [...]

About two weeks later Isabella got out of bed in the middle of the night. There was a storm raging. She went to the wood shed and got a spade and began digging up the flower beds.
Edith was woken by the ghost. [...]