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This is some tremendously nerdy fun - you know those signs you get on low bridges to tell you that you, a lorry driver, are about to unzip ...

A couple of follow-ups (follows-up, if you must) to the Lost Man's River review: firstly I alluded to it having taken quite a long time...

I tweeted a photo of my bookshelves the other day, after doing the painstaking up-shuffling of everything to incorporate the various books ...

Here's the obligatory end-of-year/beginning-of-following-year roundup of blogging activities and the like. Anyone who'd just like th...

I see I didn't do a stats update in the wake of Europe's demoralising defeat in the 2021 Ryder Cup, so I guess a catch-up is in orde...

Hot on the heels of Cormac McCarthy's demise comes the death of Czech novelist Milan Kundera. Long-standing consumers of my ghoulish au...

Halibut Towers has always been a location of the mind, not tied to anything as mundane as actual physical bricks and mortar, concrete and st...

A couple of observations following the last book review: firstly that this post that you're reading now breaks a sequence of five consec...

I was prompted by the recent resumption of near-normal Test cricket in New Zealand, and in particular by the record-breaking feats of Kane ...

Well, here we are at the end of another year, one which has, on balance, sucked ass most egregiously for an exceptionally large number of pe...

Nia has been getting into some more adult puzzle-wrangling lately, including sudoku, which reminded me of a couple of things that intrigued ...

Well, I promised you stats, and stats you shall have, specifically some comparisons of the components of my book-reading triple-century. Th...

One thing that has always intrigued me, and almost certainly no-one else in recorded history, and which I was reminded of while we were up i...