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Couple of brief follow-ups regarding earlier stuff: Firstly, halibut news. Doug is a man whose expertise on matters zoological I trust i...

I've written before about the difficulties posed for the committed atheist by the myriad ways in which society, even in the 21st century...

The recently-concluded Pakistan-England series in the United Arab Emirates yielded up, as well as some exciting cricket and a feeling that E...

Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates. It's 1955, and Frank and April Wheeler have established themselves in a little suburban commun...

Wait a minute - do you realise that it's over a year since the last whisky post ? I'm not going to bang on about having two kids to...

A couple more photo galleries for you, documenting some recent travels. Firstly the annual Swanage trip ( Swanage XIV according to the agre...

Talk Talk by TC Boyle. Dana Halter is making the best of the cards life has dealt her: profoundly deaf, she's making a living as a ...

Look upon my blogular works, ye mighty, and despair, for if my basilisk gaze should fall upon any part of your novelistic oeuvre and feature...

Led Zeppelin's Achilles' Last Stand over a montage of first-half highlights from the crucial England v Australia game in Pool A . ...

Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan. It's the early 1970s, and Serena Frome, in her final year at Cambridge, is having an affair with a high-...

Here's a couple of photo galleries documenting a couple of small holidays we had during late August and early September. You might descr...

Topsy and Tim's Mum (as portrayed by Anna Acton) in the newish (and mildly controversial in some quarters)  CBeebies adaptation of the...

Here's a quick round-up of some recent arrivals in my Hotmail inbox. There's a lot of tedious low-level spam, which I won't bore...

A couple of brief follow-up points from the last book review : firstly I should have noted that The French Lieutenant's Woman won a cou...

The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles. Charles Smithson is your fairly typical upper-middle-class Victorian gentleman - no...

One cricket stat that seems to have slipped under my radar is the remarkable achievement of Pakistan's Misbah-ul-Haq in Abu Dhabi in ...

Here's a quick round-up of statistical nuggetry on the retirement of two admirably nuggety left-handers , Kumar Sangakkara of Sri Lanka...

Another major , another round which equalled the major championship scoring record for an individual round but didn't break it. You migh...