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Wednesday, January 30, 2013

a foaming tankard of meades

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As usually happens when I tune in to BBC Four , I happened upon something interesting while cooking dinner last night: Jonathan Meades ...
Tuesday, January 29, 2013

the blog you can read between meals without spoiling your appetite

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I'm still eating the Brunch bars , just in case you were wondering - as before, not because I imagine they're especially good for me...
Sunday, January 27, 2013

nothing to get in a flap about

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One of the great joys of having very young children in the house is the amusing books you get to read before bedtime, many of them involving...
Tuesday, January 22, 2013

jacob's crackers

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Here's a short list, which I choose to entitle, pithily, Lady Actors Who I Saw In A Film I Really Liked And Additionally Thought They We...
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get involved! get stuffed

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There was a brief discussion in the comments to the last-but-one post about further phrases that caused annoyance; my example was "get...
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Monday, January 21, 2013

cross purposes

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Follow-up on a couple of recent(ish) posts: The latest round of appeals by the much put-upon contingent of British Christians cruelly den...
Sunday, January 20, 2013

marmite macht frei

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I don't know if you've noticed what Sainsbury's have started doing: in common with all supermarkets they are no doubt legally o...
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Tuesday, January 15, 2013

this is a low

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It's cricket trivia time again . A question that I've known to come up a few times in sports trivia quizzes is: what's the lowe...
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Sunday, January 06, 2013

just in time for burns night

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Another thing we got for Christmas was a fireguard, very similar to this one . Sure, it's not an all-expenses-paid trip to CancĂșn, but i...
Thursday, January 03, 2013

arseholes on board

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Here's a brief round-up of some brief things, in brief: I popped out to the sandwich shop in the car at about 11:45am today, just in t...
Wednesday, January 02, 2013

but answer came there nun

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I only caught a few minutes of Desert Island Discs on my last day at work before Christmas (Friday December 21st), but a couple of things wo...
Tuesday, December 18, 2012

end of the century

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So the question I was asked, following the last post , was: that's all very interesting, but is 99 a statistical outlier in this regard?...
Saturday, December 15, 2012

99 flakes

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Another morsel of cricket-related statistical trainspottery and trivia for you: when the Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni took a quick s...
Wednesday, December 05, 2012

tis the season to be pedantic

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It's December, Christmas is in the air, there's a bit of frost on the ground in the cold winter mornings....or is there? Well, yes, ...
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Monday, December 03, 2012

is it a bird? no. is it a plane? yes; yes it is

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Here's a thing you might like to try: take a trip - cyberspatially I mean - along the M4, via the magic of Google Maps, and turn off at ...
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Friday, November 30, 2012

hammond's organ

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My earlier cricket-related post was both right and wrong in roughly equal measure, as following his 176 in the Ahmedabad Test and 122 in M...
Wednesday, November 28, 2012

it's beginning to look a lot like arseholes

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Once again I'm afraid I've failed you utterly in terms of informing you in a timely manner about the need to vote in the 2012 Bad F...
Tuesday, November 27, 2012

the pickled sprouts followed by the crabmeat phal

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I'm not going to dress this up in any sort of pseudo-philosophical flummery or try to intellectually justify it in any way; what follows...
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Friday, November 23, 2012

stuck inside of mobile with the blogging blues again

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As you were, calm down, sit down at the back there: this is just a test post to check the functioning of the Blogger mobile app that I'v...
Monday, November 12, 2012

der phased plasma rifle in der 40-Watt range

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It's been a good week for salutary lessons about the differences between the UK and the USA, and indeed the salutary differences between...
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