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It's Claude Lelouch 's notorious 1976 short film C'était un rendez-vous , which is essentially a berserk 8-minute drive through ...

The exact rules governing my whisky-buying habits have yet to be formalised, as the whole process is still in its infancy, and I reserve the...

The 2009 Ig Nobel prizes were awarded this week , a week or so in advance of the "real" Nobel prizes . Interesting as those are,...

More on Steorn's magic bean generator aka magic perpetual motion gizmo the Orbo , which I'm sure you'll remember from previous ...

Here's an entertaining short film aka long advert about Johnnie Walker whisky (the film is also on the main page of their website) s...

Sad news this week as Cockney - if you will, Rock ney - music duo Chas and Dave announce that they're splitting up . Yeah, I know, I as...

What's so fascinating about this lengthy YouTube debate is not so much the content (though it has its moments) but the way it illustrat...

As a brief follow-up to the earlier Munro-related stuff , if you are at all interested in bagging a few and not dying in the attempt then it...

Couple of interesting things about the review of William Shawcross's biography of the Queen Mother in the Independent today: Firstly, t...

A few brief notes on the last couple of weekends' activities: The weekend before last saw our annual trip to Swanage for the usual drin...

It occurred to me while I was sitting on the sunny terrace outside the Betjeman Arms at St. Pancras International station last Friday waiti...

I was in a meeting earlier (can't tell you what about - top secret) and someone used the phrase " get shut of " with its usual...

As so often with BBC4 you drop in just for a second and end up catching something really interesting. Tonight I dropped in just to catch th...

Sorry for all the interminably long posts recently, by the way. I'll try and throw in a few quickies to make up for it. Here's one, ...

Things I Like On TV This Week (Or Thereabouts) My former university contemporary Derren Brown is laughing at us. Well, not at me ; I know ...

The Road by Cormac McCarthy. We're in the former United States after some unspecified apocalyptic event. No details beyond a vague flas...

Virtual Light by William Gibson. Chevette Washington is a bike messenger in San Francisco. Not motorcycles, you understand, strictly pedal ...

And finally a few random Scotland-related loose ends, in no particular order. The Caledonian Sleeper is a very civilised way to travel - me...

Let's do the whisky stuff next. I got back from Scotland with three bottles of whisky - all of which, rather miraculously, survived bein...

A more general post about our trip to Scotland to follow later with links'n'stuff, as well as some ramblings about whisky-sampling a...