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Here are a couple of amusing Onion articles satirising.....well, I hope it's obvious what they're satirising. America is a weird ...

Let me give you a couple of examples in a purely cricketing context following my last couple of posts on the subject : Stephen Fleming'...

The Unbearable Lightness Of Being by Milan Kundera. I don't like leaving books half-read; once I've started I'll generally plou...

Here's the internet as a force for good again. Yes, I know, there's still an awful lot of naked women doing all manner of eye-water...

We went for a bit of an exploratory walk around Newport on Good Friday with our friends Hannah and Mark. I took a few pictures, which can be...

Haven't done a recipe for a while, so here goes. Rabbit Casserole I learnt this from my mother many years ago, but I have a feeling it m...

A couple of new links on the blog sidebar you'll be needing some further details on - both photograpy-related, as it happens. So not onl...

Last word on this, I promise - here's my driving test report, with the bits that would enable Al-Qaeda to steal my identity and drive a ...

Legendary science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke died in Sri Lanka yesterday, aged 90. As a writer I would say Clarke was more of a sourc...

I passed my driving test on Monday. This is quite a major moment for me, so permit me to bang on about it at some length. It's been a lo...

Talking To The Dead by Helen Dunmore. Nina and Isabel are sisters. Isabel has just had a baby. Nina heads down to her sister's country ...

One of the selling-points of our new house in Newport was the little patio garden at the back. Nice and low-maintenance, no lawn-mowing requ...

I should point out that I haven't just randomly happened upon a picture of Cock Soup on the internet or something like that; I actually...

Properly nuts too. In other news: large ursine quadruped defecates in forested area. But only because the Illuminati told it to.

Cricket is an absolute goldmine for the sort of statistical geekery displayed in my previous post , so here's a couple more related thin...

In today's busy dog-eat-dog world, don't you often find yourself in the position of having little or no time for food preparation, b...

What with the New Zealand v England test series kicking off this week, I think a cricket-related post may be in order. Particularly as this ...

Well, just to illustrate my point about coincidences - no sooner have I put a book post up which references my earlier book post reviewing...

Thinks... by David Lodge. You generally know what you're going to get with David Lodge: it's likely that there'll be an academ...

This is very funny indeed , particularly if you've grown up with Star Wars, and, at the same time, find the flummery of the Catholic chu...