This photo makes it look much better than it is! The paper table is rust-lined, the tab rubber's mush, the feet are semi-liquid and th...

...and thank you, Canadian workers, for my 1939 Remington Portable Model 5 and my 1936 Corona Silent, maple syrup, canoes, Leonard Cohen, Ca...

A neighbour of mine was helping out at The Orwell Prize awards evening in London on Tuesday this week (17 May 2011). Here's an author w...

Short and sweet? From my Remington Model 5

Nancy made a bee-line for The Good Companion Unless I find a typewriter under the bed or in a cupboard, and until the next one comes alon...