Sir F. Chook, Inventor of Leopard Oil
Likeness captured upon a daguerrotype machine in Japan, July 1891
Wherein the Author reflects upon certain topical & personal issues of the Day.
The following lettres were posted during this month:
Posted upon the 29th of May, 2005
ECCENTRIC TRIO WELCOME PUBLIC INTO HOME
Captain Chooke, Sir Dreal and Tsarina Kathryn the Great of Karlton North were visited today by a variety of celebrated figures, in numbers not seen since the (diastrous) launching of the HMS Without-a-chance last year, as well as masses of admirers. Our own society reporter, Clonstance Fuggerey, was present to […]
Posted upon the 27th of May, 2005
It is pleasant to think that, in a piffling fortnight, my present studies shall be complete and I will be able to devote myself full-time, however temporarily, to Frilly Shirt.
Unfortunately, these weeks include near-constant writing. How direly tiresome! Such ignominy! I lay the blame squarely at the door-step of Parliament, with their Budgeting turning the […]
Posted upon the 24th of May, 2005
Today finds me somewhat subdued, and unlikely to excite the casual reader, alas. Duties of the life of study have sapped my leisure time for some… time now, but! One more essay has been completed, with a scant two remaning! Soon I shall have time again to read newspapers in the library, or walk by […]
Posted upon the 23rd of May, 2005
Attention Dandies, Fops (but not Cops), Gents, Ladies, Lady-Gents, Childs, Youths, Infants, Papists, Dissenters, Anglicans, Easterners, Paganists, Left-wing Aristocrats, Labourers, Builders, Artisans, Innhands, Machinists, Engineers, Collectors of tickets, Barmaids, Washerwomen
Riveters, Organisers, Agitators, Punkers, Funkers, Spunkers, Spelunkers, Luddites, Swingists (but not Swingers), Radicals, Socialists, Anarchists, Levellers, True Levellers, Anthropologists, Diplocolocusists, Soldiers, Sailors, Freebooters, Buccaneers, NCOs, Deserters, […]