I am considering going to Texas next Spring to see the Alice in Wonderland exhibition at the Harry Ransom Center. It's a long way to go but I'd love the chance to see some of their amazing collection of Carrolliana too - letters, manuscripts, rare books. The Center has enough to keep me there for a month! This video gives some background to their wonderful show which will be aimed at all the family.

The same sadly cannot be said about the latest offering from Robert Douglas Fairhurst and Martha Kearney of "Secret World of Lewis Carroll" fame. Now, the talk they will be giving in London to publicise RDF's "celebration of Alice" promises "child prostitutes.""

Like the gnat says in the "Looking Glass" railway carriage "I could make a joke about that," and perhaps the only thing to do is laugh ... or else you would cry.