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Catalogue, Arranged by Issue, of
All Material That Has Appeared to Date in Bikwil
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Emily Doesn’t Live Here Anymore |
Tony Rogers |
There's been a subtle change of address. Inform the world. |
| Country Gate | Frances Mackay | Few images of outback Australia are more evocative than that of the humble country gate. |
| Wot, No G & T? | Tony Rogers | Hold on to your inebriated hats! |
| Arabesque | Doug Tanoury | Aboard the coach. |
| Web Line | Tony Rogers | Music while you work. |
| Hooked on Jazz | Bet Briggs | The third in our intermittent series. |
| Now for a Clerihew | Various | Another couple of "purposefully flat-footed" verses from TR and Dorothy Filshie. |
| Mary Bennet | Jennifer Paynter | Part 21 of our serialised novella. |
| A Word in Your Pink Shell-like | Harlish Goop | From sixteenth century Florence to the U.S. DOD. |
| Buttless Wonder | Larry Blankenship | An urgent problem cries out for a radical solution. |
| Quintessential Quirky Quotes | Various | Quotes from Arthur Baer, W.S. Gilbert, Oscar Levant, H. L. Mencken and the eternally creative Anonymous. |
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From the Back Verandah
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Fizzgig |
Ods bodkins! It's Kwizz
Gig 5. Look out! |
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Not a Bad Score |
Tony Rogers |
Inconceivable back then. But there it is. |
| Home Ground | Bet Briggs | "This valley is a teeming cup . . ." |
| Lyrics I Write of You | Peter Mara | The seventh essay in our Memorable Moments in Music series. |
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Now for a Clerihew |
Various | Here are a couple more, this time from Dennis Callegari and TR. |
| Web Line | Tony Rogers | Belatedly, some international Art sites. |
| Mary Bennet | Jennifer Paynter | Part 22 of our serialised novella marks the close of Volume 1. |
| Readers Who Love Mysteries but Hate Suspense | Louisa Howerow | Whodunit fans might relate to this — the honest ones, anyway. |
| The Feral Joke Collector | Various | We can blame that Banstickle individual for submitting these two. |
| A Word in Your Pink Shell-like | Harlish Goop | Of course, the question then arises: is it to be known as the chicken or the egg? |
| Quintessential Quirky Quotes | Various | Quotes from Douglas Adams, Andrew Mathis, P. G. Wodehouse, Stephen Wright and your obligatory interloper Anonymous. |
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From the Back Verandah
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Fizzgig |
Rejoice, all of you who
were born under the astro-sign of Mandrake or Fitz. |
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"Even Rats Laugh" |
Tony Rogers |
A diet that works? |
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Now for a Clerihew |
Various | This pair is from Dennis Callegari and Dorothy Filshie. |
| To the Editor: In Appreciation | Bet Briggs | An open letter. |
| A Word in Your Pink Shell-like | Harlish Goop | A ruse by any other name would smell as sweet. |
| Cricket for Dummies | Michael Hart | The Ins and Outs of an Oldie-but-a-Goodie. |
| Blurring the Edges | Tony Rogers | Another in our once-in-a-while series Up-front Popularizers. |
| Songs for the Modern Nursery | Henri Dandin | Tasteless rhymes his mother didn't teach him. |
| Appetizer 1 | Tony Rogers | Echoes from a stylish past could tempt you to look further. |
| Jonquils, Suddenly | Diane Dees | Tiny. Yellow. Tough. |
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Crackpots |
Melissa Pearce | In case you hadn't heard, there's been a recent addition to the literature about the eccentrics who flourish Down Under. |
| Web Line | Tony Rogers | Have fun with inedible spam in the privacy of your own home |
| Quintessential Quirky Quotes | Various | Quotes from Tommy Cooper, Don Marquis, Rita Rudner, Calvin Trillan and some smug upstart identifying himself as Anonymous. |
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From the Back Verandah
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Fizzgig |
A word or two from a
famous Lady. |
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An Exclusive Message for the 240 Club |
Tony Rogers |
Discard those fantasies of imperial wealth. |
| Eric Maschwitz Goes to Work | Peter Mara | No. 7 in our Memorable Moments in Music series sheds more light on the life and work of the man who wrote the lyrics to These Foolish Things and A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square. |
| Wholeness | Laura Stamps | Some insights take their own time. |
| A Word in Your Pink Shell-like | Harlish Goop | Leave it out, put it in, but no mention of the Hokey Pokey, please. |
| Now for a Clerihew | Various | Here are another two from Dennis Callegari and TR. |
| Oh, There You Are | E. Roy Strong | "He may lay it on a bit thick in his anecdotes, but one thing you can say for Sleepy Jack Hanrahan — his loquacious passion for jazz is both sincere and well informed." |
| Ambition | Bet Briggs | There are two ways to go. |
| Web Line | Tony Rogers | Google et al. go courting?. |
| Quintessential Quirky Quotes | Various | Quotes from Marcus Brigstocke , Bill Bryson, P.G. Wodehouse, Steven Wright and the inescapable Anonymous. |
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From the Back Verandah
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Fizzgig |
Solution to Kwizz Gig 5. |
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Has Bikwil Regained Its Drive? |
Tony Rogers |
A New Year message from the Editor. |
| Seasonal Change | Bet Briggs | Transformation. |
| "Ask an Impertinent Question . . . Get a Pertinent Answer" | Tony Rogers | Another in our increasingly less intermittent series Up-front Popularizers. This is No. 5, making it the second one this year. |
| A Christmas Carol | J.G. Lyle | The Ghost of Many Christmases Past and Future? |
| Appetizer 2 | Tony Rogers | Another example of fine Edwardian prose style. |
| The Operation | Michael Hart | You could say it’s a fundamentally funny story, I suppose. |
| A Word in Your Pink Shell-like | Harlish Goop | Beg, borrow or steal. |
| Autumn Muster | Frances Mackay | "Early risers stoked on coffee and excitement of the chase." |
| Web Line | Tony Rogers | It’s o.k. to be permanently fixated at the moviegoer stage. |
| Now for a Clerihew | Various | One from TR and a double-decker from Dorothy Filshie. |
| Quintessential Quirky Quotes | Various | Quotes from Yogi Berra, Patrick Monahan, P.G. Wodehouse, Steven Wright, and that persistent gatecrasher Anonymous. |
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From the Back Verandah
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Fizzgig |
The top secret world of
amygdaloids, conchoids and factoids. |
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I Kid You Not |
Tony Rogers |
Please welcome a guest contributor. |
| Web Line | Tony Rogers | "Music, music, music." |
| The Drudge Report | Jonathon Green | How does he do it? Why does he do it? |
| No Matter | Laura Stamps | The natural world as seen "from behind the drapes". |
| A Word in Your Pink Shell-like | Harlish Goop | Crave some good gibberish? Roget and beyond. |
| Reflections on St Valentine's Day | Bet Briggs | The 14th day of February can mean different things to each of us. |
| Q.E.D. | Michael Hart | Another example in our Spellbound series of signs gone wrong. |
| Farewell to Those Twentieth Century Blues | Tony Rogers | Insulting? Intolerable? You be the judge. |
| Quintessential Quirky Quotes | Various | Quotes from Catherine Aird, Maggie Kuhn, Spike Milligan, Ronnie Shakes and that famous Chinese philosopher Anonymous. |
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From the Back Verandah
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Fizzgig |
Is it possible to
participate in market research and remain sane? |
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