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Does anyone else, when they see one of those orange Hapag-Lloyd containers go past on the back of a truck, instinctively start humming the ...

Don't you just hate it when you stumble across a blog which seems to be written by an intelligent and clear-thinking human being, only t...

Just a quick follow-up to my post of earlier today : I have a crackpot theory for you, and it goes a little something like this: bands who h...

You may recall my earlier post about amusingly-named estate agents. Well, following my move to Newport (of which more in a later post, when...

I'm "working from home" today, hem hem, so I've got iTunes in random selection mode in the background and it's been ki...

Detailing the vocabulary and usage differences between American English and UK English would take a blog entry far larger than I would ever ...

If you're wondering about the best way to infuriate a Christian - and you should be - you can do a lot worse than getting them to expla...

It's always fun to see people's irrational superstitious dogma come shuddering up against the harsh metallic buffers of reality. Thi...

Quick follow-up to a couple of earlier posts: you can add Ypsilanti to my list of things that look as if they've been written down the ...

Don't you just hate it when you don't get the whole story? Let me give you a couple of examples. This story was featured prominently...

Utz by Bruce Chatwin. The eponymous Kaspar Utz is a descendant of minor middle-European nobility who lives in Prague and is an obsessive co...

Must just share this picture, too. Don't get me started on TV chefs.

Here's a few pictures from the wedding of my friend and fellow Dartmoorist (and, in slightly less gruelling conditions, fellow Swanage...

You just know when you dash off some half-baked musings on this sort of subject that someone will get all pedantic on your ass. I was only ...

A couple of tangentially-connected follow-up thoughts after the last book review : There's a sub-plot in the book regarding a plot to as...

Island Madness by Tim Binding . So, as the title suggests, we're on an island. In fact this is Guernsey , and it's during the Germa...

You can see why Johnny Foreigner has so much trouble. Even English words that appear to derive from similar roots have subordinate forms der...

Couple of interesting articles from today's Independent: Firstly a leading article in favour of the suggestion that Britain adopt an ...

Certain things make me irrationally suspicious of people. Just off the top of my head, these would include: people who don't drink, peop...

Hats off to the National Secular Society for pushing for the abolition of the laws regarding blasphemy in this country (the full text of t...