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Friday, July 31, 2015

celebrity lookeylikey of the day

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Singer-songwriter Martha Wainwright and comic actress Sally Phillips. Pictures carefully chosen as they only really look alike when they...

the last book I read

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Our Kind Of Traitor by John le Carré. Perry Makepeace and Gail Perkins have got precious little to complain about, on the face of it. H...
Friday, July 24, 2015

I've started so I'll finish

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Quick follow-up on a couple of earlier posts: I should have mentioned during the Pride And Prejudice review that this is another book tha...
Thursday, July 23, 2015

hayling frequencies open, captain

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A couple of photo galleries to catch up on from various recent travels: Firstly, we went to an owl sanctuary for my Dad's birthday. N...
Tuesday, July 21, 2015

nation shall say cunt unto nation

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It seems like BBC presenters are queuing up to bombard viewers with a fusillade of c-bombs at the moment. Hot on the heels of John Inverdale...

here are the shoes headlines

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Never mind all that stuff about books and golf , you'll be saying, we haven't had a shoes news update for a while. And you're ...

our father who art in heaven, help me eagle hole eleven

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In the wake of the thrilling climax to The Open Championship, here's a short list of reasons why we should cherish 2015 champion Zach ...
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Saturday, July 18, 2015

the last book I read

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Solaris by Stanisław Lem. Kris Kelvin, a psychologist, has been assigned an unusual mission: travel through the vastness of space to th...
Wednesday, July 08, 2015

the last book I read

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Pride And Prejudice by Jane Austen. Well, this is awkward. You'll recall my listing a whole catalogue of 19th-century classics tha...
Thursday, July 02, 2015

incidental music spot of the day

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Yet another appearance for Led Zeppelin's Good Times Bad Times , this time at the start of a montage of trickery in Dynamo: Magician I...
Sunday, June 28, 2015

midsummer merthyr

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My excuse for largely ignoring Father's Day up to now has been: well, its falling on the third Sunday in June means it's never more...
Friday, June 26, 2015

what, your hairy tube?

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Here's a Headline Of The Day for you, on the face of it an utterly inconsequential showbiz story about two people who may once have bee...
Thursday, June 25, 2015

book now to avoid disappointment

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You'll have been wondering, after the last post documenting the senseless slaughter of another author, how potent the juju I evidently ...
Tuesday, June 23, 2015

proper bo

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I caught most of episode 3 (of 3 - episodes 1 and 2 are here and here ) of How To Be Bohemian on BBC Four last night, presented by the lov...
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Monday, June 22, 2015

the last book I read

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The Medusa Frequency by Russell Hoban. Herman Orff is a writer. Of novels, in theory, but having published two to very little in the wa...
Sunday, June 21, 2015

it's in the trees; it's coming

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It is now increasingly obvious that having one of your books featured in what I obviously should have been calling The Electric Halibrary f...
Monday, June 15, 2015

headline of the day

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My recollection of my drinking exploits on my own wedding day are mainly of being bought a succession of pints - mainly of the excellent Kin...
Friday, June 12, 2015

what are you waffling on about

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I'll tell you what really grinds my gears : yeah, that's right, potato waffles. I know they may be waffly versatile and all, and mo...
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Monday, June 08, 2015

un train peut en cacher un autre

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A couple of loosely-coupled trains of thought: I caught a bit of the discussion on Radio 4's Start The Week this morning, another of th...
Sunday, June 07, 2015

the last book I read

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Not That Sort Of Girl by Mary Wesley. Rose Peel has made a good, sensible marriage to Ned, a man with money, land, prospects, all that ...
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