Lecturing on the Palaeolithic: Edinburgh 1946

Nostalgic in the muffs and fur
Through my mind glide Les Patineurs
As on thin glacial ice I skate
Do flints and I both patinate?

1946

NOTES

From Vincent Megaw 11-ix-2021: 'you recall that Lecturing on the Palaeolithic, Toad [SP sometimes signed himself thus in humorous vein] sent to me in lieu of a more formal contribution for Ian Stead's Festschrift: with Barry Raftery and Val Rigby (eds) Sites and sights: essays on fieldwork and museum research presented to Ian Mathieson Stead = Oxbow Monograph 56 (Oxbow Books, Oxford, 1995)