The first problem with this book is that its contributors are mostly a pretty straight lot. Decadent and straight is one thing you cannot be. You don't have to be gay. But if you're decadent you do ...

This is a darning mushroom that belonged to my great, great granny. It's a tool used in the olden days for mending holes in woollen clothes. People always fixed clothes instead of buying new ones. A ...

MY youngest son looked up from his book, to ask me a question. "What does darning a sock' mean?" Puzzled, I asked him to repeat the question. He responded by reading me a sentence from the book he was ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Darning mushroom? Who even knows what that is anymore? Mine is of green-painted wood, worn smooth, but how does this quaint anachronism ...