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The Accidental by Ali Smith. The Smart family are on holiday in a rented cottage in Norfolk. There's Eve, successful writer of pseudo-h...

Rumours by Fleetwood Mac. I know, it's not very "out there". But it's interesting to come back to something dulled by over...

Always nice to read an interview with the Manic Street Preachers as in this month's Q magazine - one of the reasons this is such a ple...

After the brief euphoria of West Indies' narrow series victory over England in the Caribbean over the winter they seem to have come bac...

Couple of additions to the blog sidebar for you: firstly the consistently amusing Daily Mash , whose latest stories include more Pope-baitin...

You know that feeling you get when your late and affectionately-remembered ex-girlfriend turns out to have starred in a critically-acclaimed...

Lest anyone should assume that my reference to Scott Mills as a "deviated prevert" in the last but one post was either a piece of...

News flash: man spends time in Jordan for publicity purposes, conflict ensues , but he emerges unscathed . Also in the news this week: man ...

I had that Scott Mills in the shower this morning. Or rather I had his Radio 1 show on the radio - and just as well, as I gather he's s...

Rider On The Rain by Sébastien Japrisot. I didn't expect to be doing another one of these quite so soon, but this is a very short book,...

After that last book review I feel almost obliged to do one of these. Luckily I've got one ready to go. I'm always tempted to start...

The Double by José Saramago. History teacher Tertuliano Máximo Afonso is half-heartedly watching a video he's rented on the recommendat...

Bit of a noodle crisis at Halibut Towers: not only have I run out of the first choice Nong Shim Korean noodles , I've also run out of th...

It is a truth universally acknowledged that there is no subject so arcane and obscure that there won't be a) a word for it and b) a we...

Re-reading my Hindenburg post gave me a bit of an acid flashback to my school days (many many years ago now of course). Anyone who's ...

The fun never sets in our office: Phil was just asking us to guess the name of his dentist. I know - crazy! Apparently it's Anderson . Y...

Yesterday was the 72nd anniversary of the Hindenburg disaster . Despite the relatively light death toll (35 passengers plus one person on th...

Now that I am in my 40th year it's time to put away childish things, and prepare for a lengthy period of dotage whereby I sit around twe...

You'll remember my close encounter with snooker superstar John Higgins at Edinburgh Airport back in March, of course. Obviously at sens...

Remember those Pedigree Chum adverts back in the 1980s? There were a few of them, but they all had a bit at the end where a tin of Pedigree ...