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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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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?...

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

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, ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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