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You remember how, back in the day, you could take your worn-down shoes to a strange little bloke in a brown coat in a dingy little shop some...

Is it just me or do those funky new shape Glade Sense & Spray room freshener thingies remind you of anything? I mean, in terms of the s...

Not so long ago Thomson Local ran a competition to find Britain's Punniest Business - the idea being that people sent in amusing (but ...

I think we can probably rule out the possibility of the Pope using the platform provided by his visit to Britain to engage in a massively el...

The mighty all-seeing and unforgiving eye of the Electric Halibut has languidly turned its fishy gaze on the world of what the kool and kraz...

Light On Snow by Anita Shreve. 12-year-old Nicky Dillon and her father live on the remote outskirts of a New Hampshire town, where Dad ek...

A lot of column inches, real and virtual, have been devoted to the entirely unremarkable story of Stephen Hawking and his pretty bland asse...

Weekend by William McIlvanney. There is to be a literary study and appreciation weekend on the fictional  Scottish island of Cannamore (w...

Sufjan Stevens ' Casimir Pulaski Day during a sequence where Matt Baker went kayaking on Loch Etive during tonight's episode of Se...

Also, continuing the strange items found in the shed theme from the first shed post, I had to move this off a shelf earlier as a prelude to...

It's been a while since I spent any serious time in the shed , mainly through having to get on with higher-priority stuff like decoratin...

Ah, the golden age of rail. Steam, separate compartments, porters lugging your numerous valises and portmanteaux onto the train for you, the...

Here's my latest whisky bargain: Old Pulteney 12-year-old, currently retailing for a knock-down 20 quid at a Tesco near you (that's...

A couple of recent additions to the photo galleries which may or may not be of interest: Firstly some photos from Jim's stag weekend a...

I haven't had such an enjoyably cathartic session of bellowing OH FUCK OFF at the radio for quite some time as I did this morning on the...

If you watch Dave enough then you will eventually end up watching every episode of QI ever recorded, several times, in a random order (same...

Kleinzeit by Russell Hoban. Kleinzeit is an advertising copywriter; or at least he is for the first couple of pages until he gets sacked for...

By another not-at-all-spooky-if-you-actually-think-about-it coincidence , here's CRACKED.COM 's list of the 7 Most Horrifying Museum...

Following my shocking revelations about permanent mental scarring and occasional explosive bed-wetting following a chance childhood viewing...

So I was trawling through Wikipedia, as you do, trying to find a suitable link to attach to my tangential mention of the Irish flag for tha...