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More exciting outdoor-adventurousness news as promised, but first a bit of scene-setting: we went on holiday to Scotland at the end of July....

We went for a walk up the Blorenge a couple of weeks ago; broadly similar in route and distance to the two previous walks we'd done - th...

From A Buick 8 by Stephen King. So here's Troop D of the Pennsylvania State Police - just a bunch of regular guys trying to keep the pe...

Desperate Characters by Paula Fox. Otto and Sophie Bentwood are a couple of forty-ish middle-class New Yorkers, living in a nice apartment ...

Pattern Recognition  by William Gibson. Cayce Pollard, an American woman in her early thirties, is a sort of " coolhunter " for hi...

Just catching up with a couple of authorial deaths that I'd missed during the second quarter of 2025. You can't afford to take your ...

The Spectator Bird by Wallace Stegner. Joe Allston is a mostly-retired literary agent, settling slightly cantankerously into old age in rur...

One thing I did find myself occasionally doing while reading Dalva is referring to the Northridge family tree to remind myself which of the...

Dalva by Jim Harrison. Let's meet our main character, who is called *checks notes* Dalva. She's forty-five and living in California...

It seems that Adriano Celentano's 1972 single  Prisencolinensinainciusol is the advert music of choice at the moment, as I've seen...

Time for a deep dive into the world of shoes; my shoes in particular. I have no authority to speak for or about anyone else's shoes, nor...