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As of today it's a pretty busy week for celebrity deaths: as well as John Updike a couple of other interesting people have hopped the t...

Continuing my occasional series on notable literary deaths: John Updike died yesterday . One of the most celebrated of late 20th century ...

So I Am Glad by A. L. Kennedy. Picture the scene: you're looking for a new flatmate for your shared house in Glasgow, and a mysterious ...

I was watching BBC Four earlier and caught the second half of What Darwin Didn't Know , a programme presumably broadcast as part of the ...

While we were in Cardiff the other week I picked up a copy of Country Walking magazine, largely because its cover prominently featured a p...

More interesting sporting phraseology : during the course of watching the final of the Masters snooker on Sunday night I noticed the comme...

A bit of a weekend of DIY here at Halibut Towers - firstly plumbing in a new Bosch dishwasher which we bought the other day: This necessita...

I've just been watching Could You Eat An Elephant? on Channel 4, the synopsis of which made it sound quite interesting - two chefs trav...

A couple of footnotes to my previous post , and the bit about Matthew Hayden's retirement in particular: The BBC Sport blog piece and ...

2009 is Ashes year, in case you didn't know. After the debacle of the 5-0 whitewash in Australia a couple of years ago you might think ...

Here's a couple of sets of photos for you - firstly the epic pond clearance up at my parents' place on the first weekend of the new...

While I'm in the business of making unreasonable demands , can we also have an embargo on anyone ever again using Ain't Got No/I Got...

Just when you thought the last few drops of delicious irony and schadenfreude had been wrung out of the atheist bus campaign , Stephen Gre...

One more thing while I'm here - is it just me or is the current vogue for self-consciously krayzee novel titles starting to get a bit ir...

Forgot to mention another slightly odd connection with an earlier book - my copy of Lolita has a page (page 264, since you ask) missing - n...

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov. Or " that book by Nabokov " if you prefer, as this is the one that Sting was referring to . Pretentiou...

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...