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A lengthy period of home maintenance at Halibut Towers tonight; some heavy duty washing up, cooking and then a bath. All of which offered am...

The Nature Of Blood by Caryl Phillips. Caryl Phillips is a black author from St. Kitts, and (I gather) much of his earlier work is informed...

The latest list of the most popular baby names (i.e. for 2006) has just been published. I don't have any earth-shattering observations ...

I went to Cardiff today. Partly just to have a venue for Christmas shopping that wasn't Bristol, i.e. either Broadmead or, God forbid, ...

Got a couple of photos from today's exciting voyage of discovery in South Wales to post in a bit, but that might have to wait until afte...

....cos I mean to go to Cardiff early-ish tomorrow and I need to sleep. But I followed a couple of links and found this earlier today, and ...

Firstly, another plug for a local Bristol business: the very wonderful Kin Yip Hon Oriental supermarket on St. Thomas Street down near Bris...

Funny - I was just surfing around for some rational science-based blogs on the internet earlier, and finding some as well, in among all the ...

This is mainly for Hazel's benefit, really, though it may be of interest to anyone with a futon fetish. Hazel bought a futon on eBay: cl...

You may or may not have noticed that the blog looks a bit different today. That's because I've re-skinned it, so to speak, by changi...

Things that caught my eye while reclining on the sofa, with a hangover, reading the Independent on Sunday this afternoon: Ever looked at yo...

Exile In Guyville by Liz Phair. Here's a question - which is more difficult to do: lengthy symphonic prog rock stuff with massively com...

I was reading the sports pages in The Independent earlier this week after Alan Pardew was sacked as the manager of West Ham, and I couldn...

Probably the penultimate instalment of the lengthy saga of kit-buying for the Dartmoor trip. There's only so much stuff even I can just...

I feel strangely compelled to share some rambling and directionless views on a few things I saw on the television recently. This is part of ...

The Yes Album by Yes. I'm well aware I'm on dodgy ground here. Despite some recent artists releasing albums of a vaguely "prog...

I went up to visit my parents in Herefordshire at the weekend. I took Hazel with me (well, we met up on the way) for the obligatory Meet Th...

Before anyone points out the obvious, dugongs (and their larger cousins manatees) are of course herbivorous, subsisting largely on sea grass...

Consider this: Humans (carnivorous ones like me anyway) eat a variety of other mammals and birds. The vast majority of these species are her...

A Camp by, erm, A Camp. File under: pleasant surprises. I was never a big fan of The Cardigans, inoffensive as songs like My Favourite Game...