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Last Night In Twisted River by John Irving. It's 1954, and we're in the inhospitable northern counties of New Hampshire, right up ne...

One thing that has always intrigued me, and almost certainly no-one else in recorded history, and which I was reminded of while we were up i...

Whisky round-up part two, as promised , if somewhat belatedly. Here are two whiskies very slightly (but only very slightly) more out of the ...

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 ...