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Here's a follow-up to the chilli sauce post of a few years ago and this more specific sriracha taste comparison one from a year or so ...

Picture the scene: YOU, a hardworking professional helicopter pilot for hire, get the call to deliver a BOAT to a HOSPITAL, pronto. But WHY ...

Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín. Let's examine the options open to young Irish womenfolk in the early 1950s: grow up, meet a nice man in the vi...

Just looking through some photos from a couple of walks we've done in the last couple of weeks, and found this photo of a rather splendi...

I recall a question being asked on some cricket forum or other, possibly this one : who is the worst best player in Test history? In other w...

What's Bred In The Bone by Robertson Davies. We are back in the company of most of the principal protagonists of The Rebel Angels , ind...

One of the things I noticed around the time of Little Richard's death a month or so ago was a proliferation of related articles in vari...

You'll recall my tentative wager on it being either bulb 5 or bulb 12 that bought the farm next in the kitchen; well in a salutary less...

We've recently acquired both an Amazon FireStick and a subscription to Disney+ in an attempt to broaden our kiddy-entertaining horizon...

A couple of things I meant to mention at the end of the Spares book review: firstly I see I mentioned in the Never Let Me Go review the si...

Spares by Michael Marshall Smith. Jack Randall has got a few problems. Ex-army, with a host of memories of the Bad Stuff, an on-off addictio...

Mortal Causes by Ian Rankin. Meet Detective Inspector John Rebus. He's a maverick cop, wha doesnae play bi the book , but, God ...

Very belatedly - even more belatedly than last year , it turns out - here's the post-Christmas whisky round-up. I was lucky enough to ge...

A couple of other thoughts in the wake of the House Of Leaves post: There is a bit in the acknowledgements page at the front of my copy o...

House Of Leaves by Mark Z Danielewski. Where to start? Well, let's start with Johnny Truant. As the desperately hip (and doubtless ...