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This is deeply deeply wrong. For thine be the kingdom, the power and the glory hole . More at the Facebook group Bad Religious Art . Not to ...

Here's another one: this entry in the Independent 's list of sporting team-mates falling out with each other. It's about Frenc...

More lazy slapdash couldn't-even-be-bothered-to-Google-it journalism from the BBC today: this article about that cornerstone of modern ...

On Saturday we nipped over to St. Woolos' Cathedral (about 50 yards down the road) as they'd put a leaflet through our door adverti...

While we were in Pembrokeshire we foolishly forgot to do any pre-emptive gardening before we left, and as it was a bit wet (to say the leas...

Unless by Carol Shields. Reta Winters is a writer, principally of short stories and translations (mainly of the French-language works of her...

Here's another one, also with a bit of a sporting connection: eight-time major winner and recent Open not-quite -history-maker Tom Watso...

A sporting one today: 1991 Wimbledon men's singles champion Michael Stich and Australian fast bowling all-rounder and recent recipient ...

A few brief highlights from our week in Pembrokeshire with Hazel's family, photographic accompaniment to which can be found here . We st...

Inversions by Iain M. Banks. The woman named Vosill is a doctor, personal physician to King Quience, ruler of the kingdom of Haspidus. The p...

Songs that start with a single drumbeat (called, rather amusingly, a "rimshot"; make up your own jokes ) before the rest of the ba...

The Leaves On Grey by Desmond Hogan. Sean McMahon is a young boy growing up in 1940s Dublin. He spends most of his time hanging about with ...

Presumably it remains OK for the ladies? It's not really clear. Enquiries should be directed to the University of Michigan . Also, no wa...

Lead singer of former Mercury Prize winners and insipid wishy-washy bedwetters Elbow Guy Garvey, and cuddly comedy oaf Nick Frost .

Remember the blasphemy challenge from last year? Sounds like there may be something similar going on in Ireland shortly , as another pointl...

Remember Centralia, Pennsylvania ? The town that's been on fire for 40+ years? Well, apparently it's not unique. Here's a couple...

Nice little collection on MSN of anecdotes about inventors killed by their own inventions . Couple of particular note: Thomas Midgley, jr. ,...

Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy. See the child. He is pale and thin, he wears a thin and ragged linen shirt. He stokes the scullery fire....

Remember the US election night ? That was fun, wasn't it? And now, a mere eight months later, after several recounts and lots of legal ...

Brief follow-up to one recent and one not-so-recent blog post: Firstly, you may remember my trip to Cardiff back in December 2006, and the ...