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Rugby I didn't see much of the rugby at the weekend, as I was out getting muddy in The Cotswolds (see previous post). Couple of brief ob...

We went for a 15-mile walk around the edge of the Cotswolds at the weekend as a training exercise for the Dartmoor trip in January. Photos c...

Gold by Ryan Adams. There's a sort of perverse rock snob temptation with any given artist to latch on to one of their more obscure albu...

"Dumbing down" is an over-used expression, but I feel compelled to use it here to describe the current state of BBC science progra...

Well, I didn't get to sample the apple & mint jelly - I'd forgotten it was Thursday night, and Thursday night is (occasionally) ...

Thanks to Doug for the title of this posting (I've corrected your spelling, though). Well, day 1 of the Ashes in Australia 2006-2007 (A...

Well, the apples released all of their precious fluid overnight, so it was time to complete the jelly-making process. First a carefully cali...

This one is, if anything, even weirder. Remember, this is just cornflour and water mixed together, and then stuck on a vibrating plate. Isn...

I came across this completely (well, to me anyway) fascinating clip on YouTube today: inauspicious beginnings with some bloke stirring a pe...

The 2006-2007 Ashes series kicks off in Brisbane tomorrow. I'm very excited and nervous about the whole thing. I think the Australians a...

Robert Recorde , 1510-1558, physician and mathematician. Born in Tenby, attended the universities of both Oxford and Cambridge, acted as phy...

Hazel's parents have an apple tree in their back garden. And a highly productive one it is too, by the look of it, as she brought me a b...

Just to clarify the whole cheese and tomato issue - my previous post (particularly the cheese section) might have given the impression that ...

Not sure why I started thinking about food all of a sudden, but it probably dates back to a conversation I had with Hazel a while ago: Hazel...

....especially when one of them is an army surplus camouflage-coloured peaked fleecy balaclava. This is the essential piece of kit in my Da...

Obviously I don't listen to albums I don't like; well, not more than once or twice anyway. What I'm getting at is: all the album...

Anyone posting comments to this blog will now find they have to undergo a word verification test before they can publish their posts. It doe...

Joyce it is . My powers of prognostication amaze me. The force is strong in this one.....

Well, how prescient is my cricketing post of a few weeks ago looking now, in the light of today's developments ? The England management...

This is very amusing: nigel molesworth goes to Hogwart's. Anyone not familiar with the genius of nigel molesworth should immediately cl...