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The Grapes Of Wrath by John Steinbeck. O-OOOOOOH-KLAHOMA where the wind comes sweeping down the plain Where the wavin' wheat can ...

I spotted this on Twitter earlier today: This turns out to be from 2014, but I imagine the principal protagonist (who is from Taipei...

Well, it looks like the honeymoon period is over for our kitchen light bulbs. Hot (or rather non-incandescently cool) on the heels of bulb n...

I'm not sure what jogged my memory here, possibly Emma's recent post about last year 's Lakes trip , but it occurred to me that...

Bear Island by Alistair MacLean. The Morning Rose , a somewhat geriatric converted trawler, is steaming off into the Arctic Ocean with a...

In hindsight, one of the genuine high-water-marks of this blog in terms of excitement and red-hot bleeding-edge consumer affairs relevance w...

The husband of newly-installed White House religious advisor (and, it hardly needs to be said, frothing batshit lunatic ) Paula White, and ...

The Circle by Dave Eggers. Whoa , dude, Mae Holland is pretty stoked. She's just landed the job of her dreams at the Circle, an all...

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...