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The Velvet Underground 's bass- and viola-wrangler (and, hey, why not, Welshman of the Day ) John Cale  (pictured here in 1967) and abs...

Behind The Waterfall by Georgina Andrewes. Jo Kelly is restless. Sure, she's got some useful qualifications and a nice steady boyfriend...

One further note following the Harvest post: the bit near the end where the hitherto sober, stolid and unadventurous protagonist Walter goe...

Harvest by Jim Crace. Walter Thirsk has got himself into a nice comfortable little rut; in fact so has everyone in his village. Cut off from...

We haven't done a recipe for a while, have we? I can see that I wrote down a very hand-wavey summary of what I did to make some spiced r...

A couple of further items related to Moby-Dick - firstly the 1956 Gregory Peck film, while the most famous adaptation of the book, certainl...

Moby-Dick by Herman Melville. Hasten ye back with me now, if you will, to the wild and woolly days of the mid-19th century, where men were ...

Nia has been getting into some more adult puzzle-wrangling lately, including sudoku, which reminded me of a couple of things that intrigued ...

Generally I like the Headline Of The Day candidates to be freshly-minted and just plucked at the moment of perfect ripeness from whichever ...

One of the things that's kept me at a reasonable level of fitness during lockdown is Nia's love for running, which has acted as an i...

My mother, who evidently keeps an eye and ear out for these things, alerts me to a couple of appearances of our mutual relative and science...

All Shook Up by William Bedford.  It's the late 1950s (which year is never specified exactly but the Elvis song which gives the novel ...

Nia and I fulfilled a long-held ambition last weekend when we went down to the Transporter Bridge and did the high-level traverse of the b...