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Thursday, November 26, 2020

celebrity cookeylikey of the day

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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...
Monday, November 23, 2020

the last book I read

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Behind The Waterfall by Georgina Andrewes. Jo Kelly is restless. Sure, she's got some useful qualifications and a nice steady boyfriend...
Friday, November 20, 2020

this book is dead good

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One further note following the Harvest post: the bit near the end where the hitherto sober, stolid and unadventurous protagonist Walter goe...
Saturday, November 14, 2020

the last book I read

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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...
Thursday, November 12, 2020

findus crispy pandemicakes

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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...
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Wednesday, November 11, 2020

oh no, it's moby derek

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A couple of further items related to Moby-Dick - firstly the 1956 Gregory Peck film, while the most famous adaptation of the book, certainl...
Friday, November 06, 2020

the last book I read

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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 ...
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Monday, November 02, 2020

sudoku? yunohu tugotu

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Nia has been getting into some more adult puzzle-wrangling lately, including sudoku, which reminded me of a couple of things that intrigued ...
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Tuesday, October 20, 2020

shite entertainment

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Generally I like the Headline Of The Day candidates to be freshly-minted and just plucked at the moment of perfect ripeness from whichever ...
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Monday, October 12, 2020

follow the gourd

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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...
Tuesday, October 06, 2020

they practically own south america

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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...
Thursday, October 01, 2020

did he say that? he shaw did

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Wednesday, September 30, 2020

the last book I read

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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 ...
Friday, September 25, 2020

transports of delight

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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...
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