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A longer post on the same subject will follow when I have time, but for now here are some photographs from our long weekend in Northern Ire...

See what you miss if you don't pay attention? Haiku have a 5-7-5 structure, in terms of syllables per line - most people know that, my...

Well, Expelled has had its US release (on Friday I think), and the reviews are in. And, well, generally speaking, they're not good. Hav...

It is an immutable law of nature that you will only notice that your passport is about to expire when you've already booked up lots of i...

Happy Ending by Francesca Duranti. My recent changes in transport capability have meant that I now have less reading time available to me...

As any rational person does, I have a slightly irrational fear of lifts. Possibly for that reason, I found this New Yorker article fascina...

A disclaimer up-front, before we start: the death of anyone is of course a tragedy to those who knew and loved them, and is in no way a suit...

Not much point passing your driving test if you're not going to subsequently go out and get yourself a car, so that's what I did la...

It was a nice day on Saturday so we went for a walk. There's only so much interest that can be generated by walking around central Newpo...

Here's another in the vein of my couple of earlier posts regarding absurd food packaging slogans - I was making some meatballs earlier...

Updates on a couple of previous posts: Firstly, exciting news on the Absolutely DVD front: the complete box set (i.e. all four series) is...

Time for another photo-montage, I think. I came across this old photo of me and my old mate Paul in a bar in Wellington, New Zealand the ot...

Well, mid-day seems to have come and gone without me being the victim of any deeply tedious practical jokes, which is good. Strange how I...

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...