IT’S CHALLENGING to write about The Rule of Three because it’s such a fundamental part of culture, so embedded in our way of thinking, that even those who could not tell you precisely what it is already know about it intuitively.
The ties that break
A YEAR OR TWO before the pandemic, I was learning a piece of publishing software called InDesign and I had just managed to create three embossed lozenges that looked like hallmarked ingots on the page. It sort of made sense to colour them platinum, gold and silver and, for completion, I added a fourth, bronze.
Lockdown 2: The little things we miss
Why getting 'old' is old hat
WHEN I WAS just 17, Simon & Garfunkel released the album Bookends, which included the plaintive song of ageing Old Friends.
The first verse sets the scene. ‘Old friends sat on a park bench like bookends. A newspaper blown through the grass falls on the round toes of the high shoes of the old friends.’
