The late Bob Nancollis, absolute legend!

Watched her BBC 'specials' in the late 70s as a student, had no idea what a giant she was, reading this cheered me up too.

Who is the mysterious 'Mr Huffam' who arrives to rekindle the spirit of Christmas?
(Yup! It's him).

Haha! That's a very nuanced reply.
You could say that about so many people - I feel that way about Bill Burroughs.

How do you feel about 'A Bande a Part'?

Netflix will make a film about the revenge of discarded emojis, so I wouldn't worry about them too much.

Thanks!
As you can see, I've added some new information, I'm not the slickest poster, & when copying & pasting I often forget to save!
While Walpole's short fiction can be a mixed-bag, in my opinion 'The Slippers' is certainly up there with widely-anthologised work like 'The Snow' & 'Mrs Lunt'.

Now collected in 'Gifts for My Friends and Other Stories'
by Hugh Walpole.
(Hugh Walpole Society & Grayswood Press, December 2025).
An anthology of Walpole's previously uncollected short stories.
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'The Slippers'
by Hugh Walpole.
Published in 'Liberty', 19 July 1924; and 'Good Housekeeping' (UK), August 1924. Illustrations (in 'Good Housekeeping') by Gordon W. Nicholl.

Equally shaming, the post-war diminution of these women, Miller, Carrington, as ‘Muses’, by the Surrealists, despite the amazing & traumatic lives they had led.

Miller’s journalism shows that she was contemptuous of German civilians’ head-in-sand reaction to the war – ‘we were not Nazis’ – as they waved to her &, astonishingly, invited her to dinner!

Interesting, & indeed heartening, that American Vogue chose to publish Miller’s Dachau pictures; would that happen now?

Always a curious feeling when an artist you’ve admired for years, ‘suddenly’, pops into public consciousness (see Leonora Carrington). And always worth remembering that, just because you like and admire someone’s work, they’re not your property!

Well, we all have our opinions, but the 70s were fine, it was the 80s were shite - context is everything.
I lived through all that too.

Haha!
Wondered where you lot were!
Result!

Sort of 'Inaction Figures'?

Thanks Sam, was a pleasure doing it!

‘Horace Walpole planted his absurd helmet just where he pleased and you could take it or leave it.’

Hugh Walpole, ‘The Waverley Pageant’ (London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1932), pp. xxiv-xxv.

I found Unorna & Keyork interesting characters, but the Wanderer was just annoying, & the racism made the whole thing unpalatable.