2024 Season

"I often wish that I could have known the end at the beginning, so that each detail could have been savoured as it happened. But then, life isn’t a gramophone record one can play again and again till one feels one understands it. It is Now or Never for most of us, and we haven’t the time. But we shall tomorrow …" -- J L CARR, *How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won the FA Cup*

"Give orange me give eat orange me eat orange give me eat orange give me" - NIM CHIMPSKY, the longest recorded sentence signed by a chimpanzee

"The historian will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like." — E.L. DOCTROW

“By universal custom, your enemy is never more polite than when he is planning, or has planned, your destruction.” -- JAMES CLAVELL, Shogun

"I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name." -- WILLIAM MORRIS, The Dream of John Ball