Good news! Presumably because it’s raining so much, the Met Office has revised its original forecast of a glorious ‘barbecue summer’ and is ...

Inspired by Gaw's post on Radio 4, I thought I'd point you to my recommended listens from today's schedule: 10.00 – 10.45 Ball’...

Three days late so far. Got to be a girl, keeping us waiting like this. Oh come on, hurry up and come and go ! For the commute I pulled the ...

“Don’t try to analyse it, just kill it,” hissed the Lancastrian dwarf. I was standing in a field in deepest Wales holding a shotgun. The ‘bi...

Today a colleague was having a slow morning. At twenty to one she said: “Oh come on, afternoon! Hurry up and come and go.”

Gaw directs me to the Times obit of Leszek Kolakowski, which includes this summation of the philosopher’s views on the question of God: Kol...

Clay really comes into his own in Season 3 of The Wire, with the first properly elongated "sheeeeeeeeeet", but he beats his own re...

I haven’t written much about the Ashes (although believe me I am as preoccupied with them as I can be, given the paternal circumstances), la...

The latest instalment of On Thin Ice – the programme in which Ben Fogle, James Cracknell and some Other Posh Bloke, armed with only plucky ...

We watched Slumdog Millionaire last night. Yes, I thought you’d appreciate a really up-to-the-minute film review. Next week I’ll be looking...

Mr Noseybonk - a poem for children Mr Noseybonk lives 'neath the stairs, Mr Noseybonk never says his prayers, Naughty Mr Noseybonk, No...

Picked up a fantastic CD the other day. The Duckworth Lewis Method is a cricket concept album (by, strangely enough, a couple of Irishmen in...

Peter’s comment about the beast behind the sea-radiator giving Brit Jnr nightmares got me thinking about the things that frighten children....

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Quite often when I’m strolling contemplatively the lanes hereabouts, I happen upon a particular local character. He is, I would say, about 7...

Elberry, pleading poverty, has added a Paypal feature to The Lumber Room. Asking to be paid for your bloggery is an interesting idea, and I...