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I feel as if I should write something brief to mark the death (at a pretty respectable 96) of Richard Adams , if only to exonerate my own b...

Pilgermann by Russell Hoban. There have, regrettably, been quite a few times during human history when it's been tricky and/or downr...

Here's another one for the slightly esoteric category People Who You Would Have Been Mildly Surprised To Discover Were Still Alive Had ...

Attempt, if you will, to parse this gem from the BBC News website today: Corpse sex kill threat man gets 45 years . So who was making the ...

Smashing Pumpkins' Bullet With Butterfly Wings on the new trailer for WWI-themed first-person massacre-fest Battlefield 1 . Previous t...

Almost exactly thirteen months after complaining that it'd been almost exactly thirteen months since the last whisky post, here's an...

Zeno's Conscience by Italo Svevo. Zeno Cosini is a middle-aged businessman from Trieste attending a psychoanalyst in order to give ...

Hunky square-jawed hero Eric's manservant (no, stop it ) from Disney's The Little Mermaid , the Ladybird tie-in book of which is one...

So, farewell, then, William Trevor . Alas, we hardly knew ye, cut down in the prime of life at a mere 88 years old by this blog's conti...

Here's a sort of global version of the UK-only surname distribution tool - stick your surname in here and you'll get some indicati...

While in a lot of ways I think the religious-focused topics on In Our Time on Radio 4 are among the least interesting ones they do, there...

I've got two for you today. Firstly, presenter of CBeebies science-y programme Do You Know? (one of Nia's current favourite things)...

So my quest for the perfect use of my original fruity clafoutis recipe continues, with the expectation that eventually we'll hit on the...

Seems like only yesterday that I was unpacking my brown Teva walking shoes from their Amazon box and trying them on for the first time. But ...

It's time to grit our teeth and look, bleary-eyed, through the bitter salty tears of defeat and frustration at the revised Ryder Cup cu...

Couple of follow-up notes on previous posts: It appears that virginity auctions are still a thing, or at least still a thing that people ...

Just a quick follow-up to the previous post : one of the things that always grates a bit about American sports coverage is the weird ultra-r...

Sad news for golf fans this week with the death of the legendary Arnold Palmer , the first proper multi-media golf superstar . You'll h...

The Dark Room by Rachel Seiffert. In Germany before the war , there was a man who had a son. The son, Helmut, is born with a weakened r...

So it was  Roald Dahl Day on Tuesday, which is apparently a thing that's been going on every September 13th (his birthday ) for about t...