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My brief dalliance with mid-20th century African history and politics in the last book post , as well as the interesting old bits of paper p...

Much upheaval at Halibut Towers over the last few weeks, some planned, some not. More of that at tedious and unnecessary length later, but f...

There was an interesting article on the BBC website the other day about David Duval, one of my favourite golfers and a man whose recent tri...

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver. I've seen this little quote in various places, mostly unattributed - this link attributes ...

A couple of brief supplementary bits after the last post : We went to a few pubs in Edinburgh, most notably the excellent Abbotsford on Ros...

Here's a few links to some recent batches of photos that may or may not be of interest: Firstly, and rather belatedly, some photos from ...

Any form of social change which proceeds by little baby steps (as most of them do) will tend to be largely invisible to those participating ...

We went to the Cowbridge Food Festival today, always a reliable source of tempting yet expensive gourmet items. Today's haul (pictured...

The Very Model Of A Man by Howard Jacobson. A good story has a beginning, a middle and an end, they say. And this one has a beginning, all ...

I went to Kwik-Fit the other day. Nothing so very out of the ordinary in that, you might say, and of course you would be right. It was just ...

It's tabloid innumeracy time again. Have a look at this Daily Mail story about some canoe-footed freak who sent off for a pair of sli...

More interesting and revealing word choices from the Daily Mail today as they attempt to wind their readership up to a frothing climax of r...

Here's a couple selected from the team I confidently expect, after today's awesome performance against Australia in the semi-final, ...

Just as the producers of the Ed Sullivan Show discovered in the mid-1960s when they took exception to the line " trying to make some g...

Hearken ye back, my friends, if you will, to the brief bit I did some time back about the Bill Bailey gig we'd been to in Bristol. Now ...

I reckon this has been one of the more interesting Rugby World Cups, and of course it's not over yet. My overall opinion may yet be colo...

We're all accustomed to clearing a bit of spam out of our webmail accounts - you know, that phishing, advance fee fraud and herbal Viag...

Havoc, In Its Third Year by Ronan Bennett. It's some time shortly after 1630 - no, not half past four, you idiot, the year 1630. Which...

It appears, tragically, that the story of Percy Foster , dwarf, porn star and Gordon Ramsay lookeylikey, and his tragic death in a badger se...

Following on from my pointless bitching at the tail-end of the last post , here's another thing that always strikes me as odd - more in ...