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One thing that struck me while reading Staying On was the whole business of the Smalleys living in a little annexe off a bigger hotel compl...

Just a quick one today - I have no idea what sequence of clicks sent me down the YouTube rabbit-hole that led to some detailed second-by-sec...

Staying On by Paul Scott. It's the early 1970s, pretty nearly a full quarter of a century after Indian independence and the end of col...

I'm pretty sure that the last thing the world needs in January, or really at any time, is some more tips on cooking Christmas dinner, bu...

So here's part 2 of the annual book blogging stats round-up. Part 1 was the barely-there starter, a single quivering cube of beetroot j...

Grass by Sheri S Tepper. It is the distant future, a galaxy far far away , yadda yadda yadda. And is mankind living in some kind of shiny t...

It occurred to me after re-reading my earlier parkrun post , which included a picture of me lumbering sweatily towards the finish of my firs...

A few bits of traditional seasonal blog admin to get out of the way, so let's do the easier bit first: my annual Book Of The Year thing,...

A couple of follow-up items to the last post , which was getting a bit long anyway: My general running career outside of parkrunning compris...

I'm not big on New Year's resolutions, but one that I did make at the start of 2024 (pretty much the only serious one I've ever ...

The Beginning Of Spring by Penelope Fitzgerald. Frank Reid has a lot on his plate right now. Firstly there's Reid's, the family pri...

Bored with the lack of challenge involved in picking off eighty- and ninety-something authors as it has been recently, The Curse Of Electric...