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A couple of brief points of interest: Thanks to Andy's heroic efforts the photo gallery is now back up and running; I've just uploa...

Back To Bologna by Michael Dibdin. This is the tenth book in the series featuring Michael Dibdin's Venetian detective Aurelio Zen. They...

My friends James and Hayley are getting married at the end of February, so as is traditional at these times we took the groom-to-be away las...

It's amazing what you can be reduced to looking up on the internet when you're bored. Out of the window of the office where I work I...

This interesting article appeared on the BBC website a couple of days ago. For those of you who can't be bothered to follow the link, b...

The Independent are currently running a campaign highlighting the absurd quantity of packaging put on the most basic of items of food by the...

A while ago BT introduced a facility whereby you could send a text message from a mobile phone to a landline and it would be automatically t...

Fear Of Music by Talking Heads. It's always nice to revisit stuff you used to listen to when you were much much younger and realise ju...

Justine by Lawrence Durrell. This is the first book in the four-volume Alexandria Quartet, published in the late 1950's. As far as I und...

Well, that didn't exactly go according to plan. Day 1 : Train from Bristol to Exeter, bus from Exeter to Okehampton, all on time, no pro...

...you want to keep up with our crazy Dartmoor adventures from the comfort of your padded La-Z-Boy with integral pizza phone and lager chill...

I was, purely by accident you understand, watching a bit of the Take That concert from the City of Manchester Stadium the other day (a letha...

Let me know if you see a pattern emerging here: Snooker : World champion 1981, 1983, 1984: Steve Davis, the undisputed world number one and...

Robin and I decided on a last-minute Dartmoor training hike on Sunday, as it was a nice day, so we (the two of us, and Robin's girlfrie...

Two more for my inadvertent "great forgotten albums of the 1990s" collection. Doppelganger by Curve. I think I eulogised at some l...

Speaking of darts, as I was, I'm struck by the slightly spooky resemblance between England darts captain and current BDO championship fa...

I've been off work with a cold for the last couple of days, so consequently I've been watching a bit of the BDO World Darts Champion...

Dust by Screaming Trees. One of the greatest and yet most neglected of the early-90's Seattle grunge bands, probably because they weren...

This will be utterly pant-wettingly hilarious to you if: You ever read those square-jawed war epics in comics like Hotspur and Victor when y...

What is, you ask. Well, I'll tell you: the ability to see both sides of an argument. The less charitable critic would say: the inability...