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I spotted another outing for the old tabloid favourite of a child being born on the same day as its parents last week - this time it was the...

Statues in A Garden by Isabel Colegate. It's the summer of 1914, and Aylmer Weston is a cabinet minister in the Asquith government...

Another major, another round of 63 to add to the list . This time it was Robert Streb at the USPGA at Baltusrol; this one was via the long-...

The Ionian Mission by Patrick O'Brian. Meet Captain Jack Aubrey. A burly, bluff sort of cove, not perhaps the sort of man you'd...

When we moved into our house in June 2010 one of the things my late predecessor warned us about was not to leave any vehicles parked on the...

I could not begin to guess how many times my elder daughter has watched Frozen , but it's a lot. I myself have seen significant chunks o...

Among the huge collection of books that we read with Nia and Alys are a number that either Hazel or I had as children. Now there's a bi...

Here's one for the "coincidence?? OR IS IT??!?!!!? yes; yes it is" files - last night while I was cooking dinner I caught the...

Among the ludicrous number of records set by the thrilling last round of the Open Championship at Royal Troon today, and Henrik Stenson...

Haven't done a recipe for a while, and those I have done  in the last couple of years seem to have been mostly desserts . So here'...

Couple of follow-ups to previous posts: I was struck by an arresting phrase on page 132 of The Piano Teacher , during one of Erika's t...

The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek. Erika Kohut is the piano teacher of the book's title, tutoring and mentoring a group of stud...

So, Brexit, then. And while it's awfully tempting to dismiss the 52% of the UK population who voted to leave the European Union as just ...

Home by Marilynne Robinson. The "home" in question is the Gilead, Iowa home of Robert Boughton, former Presbyterian minister. ...

Quick follow-up on yesterday's religious conversion thing - as always I am surfing the bleeding edge of the Zeitgeist, as the appearan...