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A few notes from our brief trip to Dorset over the Bank Holiday weekend: - We stayed in a campsite called The Dorset Hideaway , which does w...

One thing that struck me while reading Staying On was the whole business of the Smalleys living in a little annexe off a bigger hotel compl...

More exciting outdoor-adventurousness news as promised, but first a bit of scene-setting: we went on holiday to Scotland at the end of July....

A couple of unstructured thoughts after returning from a long weekend at Center Parcs with the family. Firstly that "with the family...

Fragrant Harbour by John Lanchester. Hong Kong? Phooey ! No, really, it's true. Former British colony, business powerhouse, cultural me...

Today's pairing features my son Huw, in the pool at our holiday house in Brittany a couple of weeks ago and borrowing some of his big si...

A couple of further notes following the last three book posts: firstly while I'd had The Pope's Rhinoceros knocking around on my sh...

It was our tenth wedding anniversary at the weekend so Hazel and I managed to wangle a quick break away (specifically, away from the kids, ...

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...

A couple of things I meant to mention at the end of the Spares book review: firstly I see I mentioned in the Never Let Me Go review the si...

I went to Northampton the day before New Year's Eve. Nothing so very remarkable about that, you might say, but you'd be wrong, for a...