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Thanks to Google StreetView's splendid time-travel facility , I can now demonstrate what I was talking about here by showing you the vi...

If you clicked on the photo gallery link in the last post , you might have noticed that once you get to the end of the golf-related stuff th...

Since my lovely wife managed to snag some tickets for the final day of the Open Championship as an unexpected but very welcome birthday pres...

I note that it's something like eight years, back in the very earliest days of this blog in fact, since I last enthused about Gene Clar...

When we moved into our current house in June 2010, it was with the knowledge that there would be a few things we'd want to change around...

The opening bars of White Room by Cream over the opening moments of the Radio 4 adaptation of Philip K Dick's Do Androids Dream Of Ele...

Metroland by Julian Barnes. Chris and Toni are a couple of 16-year-old schoolboys in suburban early-1960s London. In addition to the usu...

Inspired by this quiz in the Guardian last week - which you should go and do first; I got a distinctly average 7/10, and that was aided by ...

Right, you know the drill by now, so no frills, here's the low-down: latest bulb to expire was bulb number 11, which went a week ago on...

Just a follow-up to the last post , with reference to the 1970s Bible-stories book in particular - you might say, well, as long as you set u...

I suppose there's an argument that Richard Dawkins provides a vital service for the rationalist community by acting as a sort of lightni...

Anyone reading the extraordinary weather predictions being made by the Daily Express late last week could have been forgiven for thinking ...

Fanny Hill or Memoirs Of A Woman Of Pleasure by John Cleland. What is a bright, ambitious and, as it happens, comely and buxom young gi...

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...