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The Dress Looks Nice On You by Sufjan Stevens in episode 7 of series 4 of Stella on Sky the other day. I'm a big fan of Stella , just...

Funny what you notice when you're only half paying attention. I put the old Ford Focus in for an MOT today, and much to my forehead-sla...

We've recently been having a bit of a rethink of the upstairs room arrangements in the light the impending arrival of our second child. ...

Ravelstein by Saul Bellow. Abe Ravelstein is an old-ish Jewish professor of philosophy, with a formidable academic reputation, and, late...

Great excitement at Halibut Towers last weekend as Wales managed to hold off Ireland to win a thrilling encounter 23-16 and keep alive the...

A couple of photo galleries for you, one associated with the couple of trips we took to London in late January as described here . The ot...

This is by way of a brief RIP tribute to Terry Pratchett , who died today aged 66. I had a bit of a splurge of reading Pratchett's book...

Good to see John Inverdale keeping the BBC's end up in terms of regular inadvertent broadcasting of the c-word to the nation, continuing...

A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley. Larry Cook is an Iowa farmer, who's built up and expanded the farm he inherited from his father an...

More Sigur Rós, this time during the opening moments of  The Living Mountain: A Cairngorms Journey on BBC Four earlier this evening. Remark...

Not much to add to this , really: - except to commend the nice deadpan tone of the article in Wigan Today describing the original inci...

Tonight's randomly-inspired music list of the day goes a little bit like this: the CD format gives recording companies a nice round blan...

The Redeemer by Jo Nesbø. Stop me if you've heard this one before , but: Harry Hole is an uncompromising maverick Norwegian cop. ...

I'm a sucker for a book list, as you know, so when I came across this list of foreign novels YOU MUST READ in the Independent this wee...

As anyone who knows me will be tired of hearing by now, my daughter is utterly amazing and captivating and a joy to spend time with, not to...

How many of you have browsed my Twitter timeline and thought to yourselves: hey, this is a bit like bloody poetry or something? That's ...

A couple of follow-up notes about that last book review: firstly I should point out the odd coincidence whereby the narratives of both Birds...

Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks. Stephen Wraysford is a bit of a typical English cold fish, but he's been given an ideal opportunity to...