electrichalibut.co.uk

A few things to note about the camp 1970s sci-fi classic Logan's Run , which I bought for about 3 quid off Amazon the other day: This...

Frankly there was already something about David Cameron 's weirdly smooth smug potato-ey face that made me want to punch it even before ...

Great excitement: my latest batch of internet noodles has arrived. I reckon my family are single-handedly keeping the UK Korean noodle imp...

I think it was Ben Goldacre who first mooted the idea of the Daily Mail having an ongoing project to divide every object in the world into...

This one from the BBC website: And a good thing too - doctors have enough to deal with without having to go around killing organless zombie ...

As I tearfully commemorated the passing of my old Berghaus boots a while back, so I hereby mourn the passing of my faithful old Salomon wa...

This morning's post-9am traffic jam Radio 4 accompaniment was a bit of Start The Week with Andrew Marr. The usual array of luminaries i...

My ceaseless internet advocacy and lobbying (well, one post and a couple of tangential follow-ups ) has chalked up another success: the im...

Here's a couple of links to online video stuff that you might find entertaining - I did, anyway, but hey, please yourselves. Firstly, he...

The latest batch of damson gin was long overdue for decanting, so I took advantage of a quiet night in on Friday to do it. Two litre bottle...

If you had your wits about you during the last book review you'll have noticed that I alluded to a train journey between Bristol and Lo...

If you clicked through to the Wikipedia page on Shane MacGowan as linked in the previous post , you might notice that one of the footnotes ...

Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck. It's just after the end of World War I , but before the start of U.S. Prohibition , so more than likel...

A word to the wise: Tesco currently have a special offer on whereby you can get yourself a bottle of the legendary Talisker for a bargain £...

After briefly touching on the subject of competitive eating in an earlier post , I was sent (in an unconnected incident) a number of links t...

The Conversations At Curlow Creek by David Malouf. We're back in Australia, this time in the 1820s (so about 10-15 years before the eve...

I don't want to have to start a whole separate "poo" category for this stuff, so I'll lump (as it were) it all together in...

I offer this not just as a further demonstration of YouTube's spiffy starting-the-clip-halfway-through facility , but also to illustrate...

While gingerly making my way through the slush on the way to work this morning I listened to an interesting segment on the Today programme ...

We were in Cardiff this afternoon, so we popped over to Barry Island , just for a bit of fresh air. Needless to say most of the attractions ...