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I was entertained for a couple of hours on Twitter (on X, if you musk, I mean must) yesterday by some increasingly lurid speculation about ...

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...

Here's a bit of random fun: you'll probably have all seen one or more of the various internet things that attempt to categorise put...

My elder daughter, as befits a massive Harry Potter fan who has read the entire novel sequence about nine times and has many assorted items ...

It was Alys's birthday a couple of weeks ago, and Alys is a big fan of cute wildlife of all kinds, and owls in particular, so one of the...

Come with me, if you will, as we continue our magical journey into the ever more esoteric realms of Things That Sort Of Look A Bit Like Each...

In some ways it's hard to remember what "normal", pre-pandemic life was like, but if you concentrate hard enough I'm sure ...

Moby-Dick by Herman Melville. Hasten ye back with me now, if you will, to the wild and woolly days of the mid-19th century, where men were ...

Just looking through some photos from a couple of walks we've done in the last couple of weeks, and found this photo of a rather splendi...

Well, I don't know, you do your best to make your little corner of the blogosphere a brighter place, and this is the thanks you get: Act...

Sorry, I know I'm boring you now. Two further Canada-related things: firstly you can find several hundred photographs from our trip here...

I've noticed a bit of a flurry of sea monster stories in the Daily Mail recently, and by "a flurry" I mean "two": t...

This morning's post-9am traffic jam Radio 4 accompaniment was a bit of Start The Week with Andrew Marr. The usual array of luminaries i...

Couple of photo galleries for you, in non-chronological order, just to mess with your head. Firstly, everyone else is doing it, so I thought...

While we were in Pembrokeshire we foolishly forgot to do any pre-emptive gardening before we left, and as it was a bit wet (to say the leas...

If you spend any time sitting out in our garden on a sunny day, you may find yourself feeling a few spatters of what you might imagine to be...

The Hunter by Julia Leigh. I was in one of those "everything £1" shops in the centre of Newport last week and I was having a desu...

Just a few notes from our long weekend in the Lake District. Despite the torrential rain on the M6 on the way up on Saturday, Sunday was gl...