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We've been on a couple of trips lately that have generated some photos, so this is mainly just somewhere to hang the links from. A few e...

More exciting developments with the kitchen lighting, so I hope you've got your Bulbsplosion Bingo cards handy. First to expire was bul...

The Blood Doctor by Barbara Vine. Martin Nanther is a writer and, as Lord Nanther, a hereditary peer entitled to sit in the House of Lo...

We've been away for a week, and it appears that another few bulbs took this as their opportunity to say "goodbye, cruel world...

Great things are afoot - the first two bulbs from the sample group as featured in this post have gone phut and, indeed, kablooie. And alrea...

Those of you who have been keeping an eye on developments with the possible imminent exploding whale situation in Newfoundland should be ad...

The Queen's Gambit by Walter Tevis. Elizabeth Harmon is just eight years old when both her parents are messily killed in a car cras...

Allow me to introduce my Great Kitchen Light Bulb Experiment. Our kitchen is lit by, among other things, twelve recessed spotlights in the c...

I must just publicly chastise myself here for forgetting the pretty significant name of Iain Banks from the list of deceased authors in my ...

Stoner by John Williams. So, just to manage your expectations here, this is not the story of some guy who stumbles round California in t...

Chalk up one more victim for my list of novelists who have been LITERALLY KILLED by my interest in their literary oeuvre -  Gabriel García ...

A three-way today: current Prime Minister of Spain Mariano Rajoy , my beardy friend Phil , and Fred the busker from the Julia Donaldson/Axel...

Don't Worry About The Government by Talking Heads in episode 2 of Zeitgeisters on Radio 4 on Saturday. The programme's subject, R...

O-Zone by Paul Theroux. There's been an apocalypse! Yeah , another one . This one seems to have been caused by the US government tr...

Here's a couple of good ones off the BBC website today. The first is a sort of crash blossom as previously featured here , here and her...

Couple of footnotes to the rather long Noah post : Ray Comfort's complaining about the film (among all the shameless promotion of hi...

Tricky times for Christian fundamentalists at the moment: what to make of the new Biblical epic Noah ? You might naïvely think that it woul...

I'm always up for a bit of pedantry about grammar and word usage, and like everyone else I have my own personal line in the sand regar...

Couple of follow-up thoughts after the Free Fall review the other day: Among the gazillion other awards given to Lord Of The Flies , it a...

Free Fall by William Golding. Samuel Mountjoy is a respected and established artist, but, well, it's not all been glamorous exhibit...