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You'll recall my celebration of the atavistic urge to draw cocks (preferably with all spunk coming out the end) on things: walls, hill...

Here's another one for the Slightly Sinister Weird Shit Concealed By Seemingly Innocuous Labelling Practices files. I buy quite a lot o...

Another quick follow-up to a previous post: Nutshell brings to six the number of Ian McEwan books I've read and reviewed for this blog...

One final  Lake District holiday -related anecdote: during the trip we did a certain amount of sitting around drinking wine, as you'd e...

Nutshell by Ian McEwan. They did a bad, bad thing . Well, strictly speaking they haven't done it yet, but plans are afoot for Trudy ...

Just a quick round-up of a few other bits relating to our Lake District holiday a couple of months ago; a belated follow-up, to put it anoth...

A quick follow-up to the last book post: The End Of Vandalism is, I think, the first book I've read since this book-slash-map-related p...

The End Of Vandalism by Tom Drury. We're in some loosely-identified mid-west location (generally accepted to be Iowa , though I don...

There was nothing more inevitable than Jeremy Hunt's throwing his hat into the ring at the Tory leadership election resulting in yet mo...

A couple of thoughts on the death of Judith Kerr , venerable (she was 95) and celebrated children's author and illustrator: If you had...

Beloved by Toni Morrison. Sethe has had a tough life, as pretty much anyone in her circumstances - poor, black, female - would have don...

We went on another week-long holiday to the Lake District last week, of a very similar format to the one we took around the same time last y...

Dance Dance Dance by Haruki Murakami. Our un-named narrator is a writer, though seemingly unburdened by the need to find regular work t...

Belatedly, here's the post-Christmas whisky round-up. And a bumper year it was too, featuring some of the old favourites like Jura , Hig...

I'm not sure how I ended up watching this hour-long compilation of Welsh tries - possibly residual enthusiasm after our glorious comple...