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Monday, February 25, 2013

the last book I read

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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...
Sunday, February 24, 2013

celebrity lookeylikey of the day

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Miranda 's resident comedy love interest and eye candy for the ladies Tom Ellis , and French loose cannon and one-man rugby calamity fac...
Saturday, February 23, 2013

it's a knockout, except when it isn't

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One of the things I quite like about the World Matchplay Championship that's currently underway in Arizona is how straight knockout tou...
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Friday, February 22, 2013

electric halibut brackets mister brackets

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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...
Wednesday, February 13, 2013

single to bumford mingeley, please

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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...
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Monday, February 11, 2013

infinite text

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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...

incidental music spot of the day

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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...
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Sunday, February 10, 2013

jest one more thing

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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: ...

the last book I read

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Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace. You might have been wondering what had happened to the book reviews , given their usual schedule...
Wednesday, February 06, 2013

bloody valentine's day again

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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...
Tuesday, February 05, 2013

half an hour later you just want more lupins

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

the knead for speed

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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...
Monday, February 04, 2013

wotcher cock

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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...
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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