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Interesting to see that the Australian authorities have now banned altogether the hitherto merely frowned-upon tourist practice of climbing ...

We recently had to get an electrician in to sort out some dodgy wiring, and the location of the fault turned out to be above the main light ...

Sick Puppy by Carl Hiaasen. We're in Florida, and political fixer and lobbyist and general all-round sleazeball Palmer Stoat is out...

Casino Royale by Ian Fleming. So. The name's Bond. James Bond. Codename 007. Licence to...well, I expect you know the rest. Let...

Tropic Of Cancer by Henry Miller. Our un-named narrator - let's call him "Henry Miller" - is a struggling American writer...

Today it's legendarily suave and stylish Roxy Music front man Bryan Ferry and Leave.EU communications director Andy Wigmore. That...

While I was retrieving the GPX info for the Sugar Loaf walk off my phone I noticed that there was another file on there. This one turned ou...

The kids were up at my parents' place in Abergavenny for a sleepover on Saturday night so I thought, rather than just mooching around in...

Today's theory, which is not about the brontosaurus , starts now and proceeds thusly: devoid of context it is almost impossible to dist...

The Curse Of Electric Halibut strikes again! (DRAMATIC ORCHESTRAL STAB, MASSIVE RUMBLE OF THUNDER, ECHOEY MANIACAL CACKLING) This time it...

Here's one for the file of What Does Any Of This Even Mean headline-parsing challenges : In order to have any chance of understa...

Transition by Iain Banks. Imagine a world where every toss of a coin, every tiny variation in some seemingly insignificant system, res...

Here's one in commemoration of the Ashes series which kicked off yesterday: England opener Rory Burns and his (I think) relatively newly...

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 ...