Numbers like this in dates always give me a little frisson, much as I get for a really clever rhyme. I was watching the UK poet Pam Ayres on a tv wordgame show last week (Countdown), and she read a
Tenth day, tenth month
Book Review: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
At the start of the year I had a number of classic books by Charles Dickens on my to read list. I eventually took them off, but put A Christmas Carol back on to celebrate Christmas in the most traditional