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Bit of a splurge of blogging tonight as this will probably be my last bloggortunity of 2015, since we'll be away on various New Year tra...

You'll recall my mild surprise at people's level of confusion when we decided to Welsh it up a bit on the arrival of our first chil...

Further additions to the list referred to in this recent post : in addition to Shoaib Malik and Alastair Cook's efforts in Abu Dhabi, b...

As I've said before , I'm slightly wary of getting involved with baking , as the requirement for exactitude and adherence to instr...

You know what you're going to get from this blog, broadly speaking, I like to think: ridicule and/or bile directed at religion and othe...

Just a bit of textbook blithering tabloid innumeracy for you - today's Daily Mail contains this headline: That image is from the...

The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin. Shevek is a theoretical physicist, not an especially common occupation on the planet on which he li...

Honestly, it fair makes you proud to be sort-of-Welsh these days with all the enlightened policy-making that's going on. Hot on the heel...

I've got a plastic cup on a shelf in my office with some assorted old foreign money in it - mostly coins but a few notes as well. I noti...

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...