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You'll recall my frustration at being thwarted in my plans to do a long circular walk in the Black Mountains back in May of last year. ...

Been out for a couple of walks recently that seem worthy of note (hey, it's my blog) so here's the first. It was my birthday a coupl...

Red Bull Formula 1 head honcho Christian Horner, currently *cough* in the midst of some, erm, personal issues , and Scottish comedian and i...

I'm sure that you, like me, are a deeply tedious and unappealing person to be with at parties owing to your propensity for offering up ...

2023 was a pretty average year for The Curse Of Electric Halibut, although there was a brief flurry of activity in the summer when Cormac M...

The Reader by Bernhard Schlink. West Germany, the late 1950s. Not such a bad place, though there are a few things brewing on the horizon, i...

Love And Summer by William Trevor. We're in Ireland, probably 1960s or thereabouts, in the little town of Rathmoye. All the usual cavea...

Last of the book-related housekeeping for 2023 - I'd forgotten that I'd introduced the idea of doing a sort of loose Books Of The Y...

Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie. Breq is on Nilt. That sounds like a diet supplement involving two delicious milkshakes per day, or a produ...

I was inspired by my mention of going to school in West Bridgford in the early 1980s to try and find the two schools I went to. We were onl...

Here's a map of a short walk we did with some friends when we went up to Leicestershire to visit them for New Year. We had, collectively...

It's early January, so as well as reflecting on your New Year's resolutions, and how soon you can get away with discreetly abandonin...