Even nothing cannot last forever.

When I was very young, I would occasionally stick 'f****' where I knew something contentious might happen so that the editor could remove the word 'f***' very proudly and leave whatever else was around it.

Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.

But libraries are about freedom. Freedom to read, freedom of ideas, freedom of communication. They are about education (which is not a process that finishes the day we leave school or university), about entertainment, about making safe spaces, and about access to information.

There is a proverbial saying chiefly concerned with warning against too closely calculating the numerical value of un-hatched chicks.

Nearly' only counts in horseshoes and hand-grenades.

Adults should not weep, I knew. They did not have mothers who would comfort them.