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Thursday, April 30, 2015

throwing in the sponge

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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...
Monday, April 20, 2015

the last book I read

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All Tomorrow's Parties by William Gibson. You remember Berry Rydell, right? Ex-cop, now security operative for hire, last seen in V...
Friday, April 17, 2015

only a masters of evil, darth

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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...
Wednesday, April 15, 2015

shoot that poison arrow to my she-e-e-ed

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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 ...
Saturday, April 11, 2015

the last book I read

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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...
Tuesday, April 07, 2015

out of focus

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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...
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Monday, March 30, 2015

incidental music spot of the day

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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...
Tuesday, March 24, 2015

far canal

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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...
Thursday, March 19, 2015

up a gumtree

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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. ...

the last book I read

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

men with funny-shaped balls

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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...
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Saturday, March 14, 2015

there's a feeling I get when I look to the west

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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...
Thursday, March 12, 2015

terry's all cold

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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...
Tuesday, March 10, 2015

power steering, central locking, cunted windows

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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...
Thursday, February 26, 2015

the last book I read

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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...
Wednesday, February 25, 2015

incidental music spot of the day

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

headline of the day

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