A Magician brings tidings of a cold spell

Mago arrived today, on a boat from Buenos Aires. Mago means Magician in Spanish. Actually he is called “mono de milano”, the Monkey of Milan. Maybe he has a more convential name but when someone as charasmatic as Mono arrives such formalities seem unimportant  and inappropriate. He is a modern day legend of the Southern …

FEET

We all have them: Flat, podgy, arched, bunioned, blistered, soft or smelly…. FEET Whether trotting on stilettoes or shovelled into wellington boots they are rarely ‘nude’; 100% on show.  But what I had not really considered was that at one stage, back in our dim tuber/impala-guzzling past, they were splendid leathery tools, pounding the savannah and …