From the start, we were keen that Slightly Foxed should feature not only contributors familiar from other book pages but also the voices of people who could write but who didn't of themselves as writers - people outside the literary world, who had other equally interesting kinds of experience, and for whom the written word was just as important.

From the editors.

'One day there appeared at luncheon sitting opposite to us a rosy, gray-beared, bald-headed, gold-spectacled old gentleman who captivated my attention . . . Something seemed to bubble and sparkle in his talk and his eyes twinkled benignly.'

Making the best of it.