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I was standing around in the car park at Greenmeadow Golf Club with my friend Huw the other day having a conversation about death, as one ...

There have been a couple of moments of late where I considered adding a footnote so one of the many Richard Dawkins/Twitter/foot/mouth incid...

It's that time of year again, where I stock up with a vast quantity of Korean noodles to see me safely through the winter. This year...

It was as recently as September 2007 that I mentioned having attended a christening, and the attendant difficulties this poses for the comm...

Having roundly mocked the Desert Island Discs choices of both Hilary Devey (in a post mostly dedicated to Margaret Thatcher) and Sister W...

Speaking of hats, as we were , reminds me that my current gardening and emergency going-outside-to-do-stuff hat that hangs by the back door ...

During the somewhat inconsequential hoo-hah about the disgusting state of recently discarded England wicketkeeper Matt Prior 's cap, I ...

Currently crocked England fast bowler Liam Plunkett and slab of Hollywood beefcake (and Scarlett Johansson 's ex-husband) Ryan Reynolds...

Well, in the end I got about a fortnight of putting my feet up  DIY-wise before I had the urge to go and hit some stuff with a hammer again....

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...