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As I think I've said before , I'm not big on baking , since it requires a degree of discipline and adherence to exactitude and reci...

All Tomorrow's Parties by William Gibson. You remember Berry Rydell, right? Ex-cop, now security operative for hire, last seen in V...

I am, as I think I've said before, not a betting man. I'm too mean, for one thing, and secondly I'm just too damn lazy to put in...

Let's do another mystery object , as we haven't done one of those, for, erm, about  three and a half years . So, uncle and youngest ...

Dead Air by Iain Banks. Ken Nott - né Ken McNutt before he de-Scottished himself a bit - is a radio DJ on a popular London station, a sta...

Indulge me briefly, if you will, and permit me a misty-eyed eulogy to my trusty old Ford Focus , which I sold earlier this week after owning...

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...