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A couple more recent photo galleries for you: The annual Swanage trip - a month or so later than usual this year, so we were even luckier ...

Here in Newport we're sooooo over the Ryder Cup . We're far more excited about the brand spanking new enormous branch of Sainsbury...

A bit more comedy innumeracy on the Today programme this morning, during a piece about the counter-intuitive robustness of the profit margi...

Here's my stab at one of those internet memes for you: type your name and the word "is" (with spaces before and after the ...

One last thing: it appears that the technique required to get a steady flow from the plastically enhanced Johnnie Walker Black Label bottle ...

Here's that whisky round-up I promised the other day . I was in Sainsbury's a few weeks ago and noticed that they were knocking out ...

It seems a bit remiss of me not to have done a recipe post since moving to the lavishly appointed kitchen surroundings of the new Halibut To...

Eight Months On Ghazzah Street by Hilary Mantel. Frances Shore's husband Andrew is something biggish in construction, and has just go...

More to come when time permits, but for the moment some photos of our trip to Turkey a couple of weeks ago can be found here .

It was nice to see someone I've actually read stuff by - Mario Vargas Llosa - winning the Nobel Prize for Literature a couple of wee...

I have a couple of whisky posts to do as we were on holiday in Turkey a week or two back and I've now learned to cash in big stylee on ...

Chatterton by Peter Ackroyd. It's 1770, and Thomas Chatterton is a poet, born and brought up in the shadow of St. Mary Redcliffe in B...

The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson. So here we are again, then. At the end of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo , our kooky ant...

Falling Man by Don DeLillo. Here's the dilemma of the contemporary novelist in the aftermath of 9/11 - on the one hand, how can you ...

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...