Those Flat Share Girls is a collection of light verse, written in easy to read rhyming couplets, containing an old man’s recollections of his young life in London in the 1960s. It begins in January 1960, when he bids his school goodbye with the thought that:I knew I’d never use again            A logarithm or a sine            But the trappings of a cultured mind            I knew exactly where to find. And, not long after this, while strolling to a local coffee bar, he and a friend sense that