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Apologies for all the GPS and trig point ramblings. I do realise it's interesting to just about no-one but me. We now return you to some...

Unnecessary extra detail about yesterday's walk , if you want it. I've been tinkering with the GPS today and I've managed to upl...

Last in this brief series of walks around sites of (very) minor interest in the Newport and Cardiff area - Hazel and I went for a walk aroun...

Back in Newport as of yesterday, so I decided to go for a walk this morning to wear off some of the calories I'd been shovelling in in v...

I was watching a re-run of a relatively recent episode of Top Gear on channel Dave the other day, and they had the usual Hoon It Round Th...

For various reasons I didn't get my usual quota of running about racket sport exercise behaviour last week, so I was feeling a bit pent ...

Funnily enough I remember discussing something very similar to this during an earlier conversation about inventions . It seems like a perfe...

Queens Of The Stone Age frontman and ginger Elvis Josh Homme and property tycoon and tonsorial disaster area Donald Trump .

Having just invented the mince pie flavoured cheesecake, here's another couple of inventions what I thought up in my head. The only sign...

Hey, it's nearly Christmas! So I think it's time for a festive recipe. And here it is. This is basically a simpler and less instantl...

The Hunter by Julia Leigh. I was in one of those "everything £1" shops in the centre of Newport last week and I was having a desu...

Spies by Michael Frayn. It was Kierkegaard who said " Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. ". So...

Just to underline my point about cover versions , I hear the worrying news that X Factor winner Alexandra Burke has released a cover of Le...

Today's Independent carries an interesting article about cover versions of famous songs - I infer from the various barbed comments abo...

You ever get that thing where you think: actually I'm a good and worthwhile person, kind to small animals, pay my taxes, occasional char...

A Patchwork Planet by Anne Tyler. There are those - Nick Hornby , Roddy Doyle and Jeremy Paxman among them, apparently - who think that Ann...

Balthazar by Lawrence Durrell. This is the second novel in the celebrated Alexandria Quartet , the first of which, Justine , I read back in ...

Greendale by Neil Young & Crazy Horse. File this one under spooky coincidences. I was singing along with the final track on this album, ...

Those new Microsoft " I'm a PC " ads are quite a cute response to the Apple ads of a while back. But....if I were dithering o...

I didn't attribute the Irish Independent article I linked to a couple of posts back to anyone in particular, because the web version d...