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Dinner At The Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler. Pearl Tull is dying. But do her family flock to her bedside? Well, in general, no, or at...

Miranda 's resident comedy love interest and eye candy for the ladies Tom Ellis , and French loose cannon and one-man rugby calamity fac...

One of the things I quite like about the World Matchplay Championship that's currently underway in Arizona is how straight knockout tou...

Here is my theory, which, while not related to the brontosaurus in any way, is nonetheless mine, and I own it, and what it is too, and it...

Needless to say this is very childish, but very amusing: an interactive map of sniggersome place-names from around the world. I presume a l...

Last one on this subject , honest, but just to expand on the unsatisfactoriness of page count as a measure of novel length, here's a fe...

Underneath The Stars by Kate Rusby over the closing credits to Professor Brian Cox's new BBC series Wonders Of Life . Here are a coupl...

A couple of follows-up to the previous post , which I felt was getting long enough as it was without throwing any extra stats-geekery in: ...

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace. You might have been wondering what had happened to the book reviews , given their usual schedule...

It had been so long (22 years in fact) that no-one really believed it would ever happen , myself included , but suddenly last week Kevin S...

On the subject of food, here's a strange thing: the most excellent pan-Asian restaurant chain Wagamama has a website, wherein you can ...

Haven't done a recipe for a while , so here's a good one. Now this is bread-related, and I don't normally do bread, or indeed ba...

Say what you like about corner-shop Spar mini-mart places - yes, people go in there in their pyjamas and slippers, but they're convenie...

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...