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We've all looked and chuckled at lists of strange laws, like the one that says you can't flag down a London taxi if you have the pla...

Marry Me by John Updike. Jerry Conant and Sally Mathias are in love. Trouble is, they're also married. To other people. Jerry is marrie...

U.S. Open golf champion and 5th-placed man at the recent USPGA championship Lucas Glover , and actor and co-star of the apparently thrilli...

I wasn't expecting to be doing another one of these quite so soon, but we were up at my parents' place at the weekend for a bit of a...

Sure enough, after my previous partial Pythonic recollection , here it is. Click to enlarge, if you need to. It's from the second book ,...

The atheist bus adverts continue to be a rich source of humour and entertainment. The latest little nugget of absurdity comes from Des Moin...

Inspired by the updating of one photo compilation I thought I'd do the other one as well - this one is a collection of hill & moun...

Just for a laugh I've brought the drink-related picture gallery I mentioned a while back up to date with a few (20 or so) new pictures...

We were over in Bath on Friday and I noticed that Waitrose were flogging the standard 10-year-old Glenmorangie for £22 (it's normally ...

Here are some photos from our trip to North Devon last weekend. And here are some assorted connected observations: We stayed in the Crescen...

Guitar pioneer Les Paul died yesterday in New York. No Hendrix-style early checking out for him, though, as he was a pretty respectable and...

I was listening to the iPod in the car earlier, as you do, and I was singing along with Big Star's Dony , as you do, and one particular ...

More to come on our exciting weekend adventures in Devon later, but a thought struck me as we were sitting on a pub terrace in Woolacombe on...

Kowloon Tong by Paul Theroux. Like Graham Greene, Paul Theroux is someone I used to read a lot many years ago but haven't encountered ...

The Quiet American by Graham Greene. It's the early 1950s and Thomas Fowler is a British journalist based in French Indo-China ; the bi...

Either this is a massive coincidence, or we're in The Matrix and I'm bending reality to my own ends with the power of my mind. Wait...

Channel 5 cricket highlights frontman, former Hampshire captain and slightly oily character who you might just be a bit reluctant to let get...

Quick postscript to the Pembrokeshire holiday post : it turns out the pub in Rosebush we parked up round the back of before our hill-climbi...

Naturally you'll remember the atheist bus campaign and the storm of highly gratifying incoherent hypocrisy from the religious communi...

As I've mentioned a couple of times before there's something inherently fascinating about bridges , and suspension bridges in parti...