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So it's RIP Pete Seeger , folk pioneer, political campaigner, environmental activist and the late Kirsty MacColl 's step-half-uncle....

It was Burns Night again last night, so I concocted another haggis-based recipe . Why not just go for the traditional haggis, bashed neep...

Remember my local barber? The one just down the road bearing the punningly chucklesome name of Herr Kutz? Well, despite my fears for its co...

Waiting For Sunrise by William Boyd. It's 1913, and young actor Lysander Rief is, along with a whole host of other famous or soon-...

Just a quick follow-up to the Kallis post - I'll try and keep it brief, as the fraction of my already minuscule blog readership that ha...

As predicted, the accuracy and relevance of my statistical data-mining in the last cricket-related post have been rapidly overtaken by even...

Hot on the heels of the revelations of my distant claim to the Stapledon millions comes even more exciting news: following an exchange of e...

Here, then, extremely belatedly, is the promised second footnote to the Last And First Men book review. This one is about Olaf Stapledon h...

Actress and star (along with Danny DeVito and Billy Crystal) of 1987 film Throw Momma From The Train Anne Ramsey, and crime author (of The ...

So here's another annual tradition - the post-Christmas whisky round-up. I'm pleased to say that my relatives and in-laws have now...

Here's the obligatory (and yet strangely unnecessary) annual statistical micro-analysis of my reading and blogging habits. General blog...

I took my father out for a post-Christmas walk earlier today to clear a bit of the tryptophan and saturated fat from the artery walls. Noth...

Remembering Babylon by David Malouf. It's the mid-19th century, and we're in north-eastern Australia. Lachlan Beattie and his t...

Led Zeppelin's thumping Good Times Bad Times on the trailer to the new film American Hustle . The film looks fine, if a little bit Son...

I have a couple of footnotes to add to the Last And First Men book review; here's the first. One of the cool things about my SF Maste...

Last And First Men by Olaf Stapledon. How do you like your novels' scope? A minute dissection of a single day ? A decade-spanning ...

Here's a tempting offer the good people at New Scientist made me in a promotional e-mail the other day: Eeeewww. Well, we've a...

You can always tell a really good inadvertently doubly entendresque web news headline by the speed with which it's retitled; luckily th...

Hard to believe it's been eight months since I've been up a proper mountain - how times change, small children, yadda yadda yadda, ...

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