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Friday, October 25, 2019

up your ayers

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Interesting to see that the Australian authorities have now banned altogether the hitherto merely frowned-upon tourist practice of climbing ...
Wednesday, October 23, 2019

shelf abuse

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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 ...
Monday, October 21, 2019

the last book I read

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Sick Puppy by Carl Hiaasen. We're in Florida, and political fixer and lobbyist and general all-round sleazeball Palmer Stoat is out...
Thursday, September 26, 2019

the last book I read

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Casino Royale by Ian Fleming. So. The name's Bond. James Bond. Codename 007. Licence to...well, I expect you know the rest. Let...
Sunday, September 22, 2019

the last book I read

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Tropic Of Cancer by Henry Miller. Our un-named narrator - let's call him "Henry Miller" - is a struggling American writer...
Saturday, September 14, 2019

brexilebrity lookeylikey of the day

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Today it's legendarily suave and stylish Roxy Music front man Bryan Ferry and Leave.EU communications director Andy Wigmore. That...
Wednesday, September 04, 2019

devon is a place on earth

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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...
Monday, September 02, 2019

loaf actually

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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...
Wednesday, August 21, 2019

the dead man's hand again; again, the dead man's hand

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Today's theory, which is not about the brontosaurus , starts now and proceeds thusly: devoid of context it is almost impossible to dist...
Tuesday, August 13, 2019

morrison, morrisoff

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The Curse Of Electric Halibut strikes again! (DRAMATIC ORCHESTRAL STAB, MASSIVE RUMBLE OF THUNDER, ECHOEY MANIACAL CACKLING) This time it...
Monday, August 12, 2019

headlines of the day

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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...
Sunday, August 11, 2019

the last book I read

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Transition by Iain Banks. Imagine a world where every toss of a coin, every tiny variation in some seemingly insignificant system, res...
Friday, August 02, 2019

criclebrity lookylikey of the day

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Here's one in commemoration of the Ashes series which kicked off yesterday: England opener Rory Burns and his (I think) relatively newly...
Monday, July 29, 2019

a nob's as good as a wank to a blind horse

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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...

wine based blogging

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Here's another one for the Slightly Sinister Weird Shit Concealed By Seemingly Innocuous Labelling Practices files. I buy quite a lot o...
Wednesday, July 17, 2019

in sixness and in death

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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...
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chateauneuf du splat

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One final  Lake District holiday -related anecdote: during the trip we did a certain amount of sitting around drinking wine, as you'd e...
Sunday, July 07, 2019

the last book I read

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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 ...
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