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Friday, November 29, 2013

headline of the day

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Today's Daily Mail in particularly fine stating the bleedin' obvious vein: In other shock revelations, if you look like a d...
Monday, November 25, 2013

distinctly average

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An extraordinary amount has been written, and rightly so, on the occasion of the retirement from Test cricket of Sachin Tendulkar , the mo...
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Wednesday, November 20, 2013

count your lessings

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Much has been written following the death of Doris Lessing, who died on Sunday at the impressive age of 94. So I won't add much except t...

the last book I read

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Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle. It's 1968, and Paddy Clarke is ten years old. He lives in Barrytown, north Dublin, a fairly g...
Wednesday, November 13, 2013

having a funny turn

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We went over to see our friends Jenny and Jim at the weekend, since they're imminently going to be elbow-deep in nappies and arse cream ...
Sunday, November 10, 2013

porky days and porky nights

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As my wife will tell you at prodigious length at the slightest provocation, my daughter takes after me in a large number of ways. For one t...
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Tuesday, November 05, 2013

psst: your IMPENDING FIERY DEATH light has just come on

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Here's a Bloke Skills-related confession: I am neither especially interested in, nor especially knowledgeable about, cars. Just to be cl...
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Wednesday, October 30, 2013

velvet six feet underground

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I suppose I'm bound to have heard Walk On The Wild Side on the radio a few times as a child, but my first conscious exposure to Lou R...
Wednesday, October 23, 2013

oh all right, sorry about hitler

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Inspired by this disturbing and effective series of consciousness-raising adverts , and also by my earlier research activities in a similar...
Tuesday, October 22, 2013

holy relics wholly bollocks

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Just to expand a bit on the cryptozoology/religion parallels drawn in the previous post , one of the dangers of making any sort of (even in ...

you can't handle the truth

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What did I tell you ? Here's Noel Gallagher, bless him, esteemed composer of at least two good and worthwhile songs during his lifetim...
Monday, October 21, 2013

you ain't seen nothing yeti

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I was a bit torn while watching Bigfoot Files last night between thinking, well, this is actually quite sciencey and objective compared wit...
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Thursday, October 17, 2013

twogging while bleeting about twogging

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While I thoroughly enjoy the freedom to ramble inconsequentially at unnecessary length that the blogging platform affords me, I've alway...
Wednesday, October 16, 2013

incidental music spot of the day

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Thirty seconds or so of the late John Martyn 's sublime Small Hours over a bit of the Indian section of the second part of Stephen Fry ...
Wednesday, October 09, 2013

and a luger and lime for the lady

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My good buds at Bud's Gun Shop have been e-mailing me again ; I think their latest may just be the best one yet. As usual here it is i...
Tuesday, October 08, 2013

many bridges to cross

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Fellow bridge enthusiasts will recognise the genius of this Guardian article immediately - inviting photos and reminiscences of well-love...
Sunday, October 06, 2013

the last book I read

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Leading The Cheers by Justin Cartwright. Dan Silas is at a bit of a loose end; newly single after splitting up with his girlfriend Step...
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celebrity lookeylikey of the day

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A sporting one for you, featuring one of today's European heroes in the Seve Trophy and current Wales Open champion  GrĂ©gory Bourdy , ...
Monday, September 30, 2013

a hilariously ironic blog post title

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I was picked up and taken to task, and quite rightly, by my good friend Doug a short while back for using the phrase "achingly dull...
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Tuesday, September 17, 2013

the last book I read

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Bel Canto by Ann Patchett. We're in an un-named South American country, where the ruling regime have arranged an operatic recital f...
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