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As I said at the time of the deaths of David Bowie and Glenn Frey earlier in 2016 (a year which statistically is exceptionally celebrity-d...

Ragtime by EL Doctorow. It's New York City (and its environs) in the first decade-and-a-half of the 20th century - so if there were ...

Here's a curious coincidence: no sooner do I speculate on the relative merits of furious spin-bike training and furious self-abuse tha...

It's time to address the sensitive subject of my weight. No, no, don't try to fob me off with all that "weight? are you mad?...

It was Nia's birthday today, so we went to Bristol Zoo for a day out. All good fun and Nia had a fine time including getting her face p...

The day in question being yesterday, actually, but I'm a busy man and I can't always leap into blogging action at the drop of a dang...

A couple of follow-up thoughts after the last book review , mostly relating to my battered old Penguin paperback copy of Under The Volcano ...

Under The Volcano by Malcolm Lowry. Geoffrey Firmin, British ex-consul of a town in Mexico, is in one of its bars at 7am on the Day Of ...

Hubble, bubble, toil and trouble, kill off writers at the double. Hot on the heels (and upturned toes) of Umberto Eco , the latest (and, unl...

Here's a rather magnificent addition to the dubbed-for-TV swearing files as previously noted here and expertly satirised here - this i...

Bear with me once again as I indulge my fondness for map-related trivia. Here's an interesting little website that uses data from the ...

I got the train and bus into work this morning, something I used to do every day but now only do when there's a specific reason to. That...

Recoil in horror, readers, as the Electric Halibut LIIIIIIBRARY OF DEEEEEEAAAAATH claims another victim. This time it's Italian polymath...

A couple of brief additions to the previous post: firstly you'll notice that there appear to be two summit shots in the photo gallery, o...

As I've said before , when you're a parent of two, and (in my case) married to someone whose work commitments often extend into wee...

A bit of unfortunate slapdash photo-captioning in this match summary of France's slightly unexpected 10-9 win over Ireland in the first...

I have a bit of a thing for spicy food, as anyone who's kept up with my periodic documentation of my Korean noodle fetish will know ....

The Man Who Fell To Earth by Walter Tevis. A man walks into a remote Kentucky town. Not your typical Kentucky town-dweller: tall, pale,...