Pipistrello's Commonplace Book

It used to be said, keep a thing seven years and you will find a use for it; if not, turn it and keep it another seven. True, but in townhouses the rust and moth do corrupt, to say nothing of thieves, and if a thing is not in use, it is sure to spoil or disappear. Mary Eliza Haweis, The Art of Housekeeping: A Bridal Garland, 1889

"You know, it's not very nice to discover a body." "No." "I shall have to write a lot less screaming in future." Ariadne Oliver to Hercule Poirot, "Mrs McGinty's Dead"

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man. Heraclitus