I miss him terribly.

I haven’t been able to write much this week, first because my business is to a large extent based on a mountain of work around the Budget, a...

The ever-vigilant Worm points me to yet more evidence that the cupcake movement started on this blog has jumped the shark gone to Prestatyn...

Via this comment by Tim Newman I find the following video on James Hamilton's blog , in which a professional J-League team take on 100 ...

Scandalously, my Alpaca film only managed third place in the 2010 Yo! Sushi Award for Film and Sculpture Exploring Issues Around Identity i...

‘The Exmoor’ is the longest compulsory school cross-country run in Britain. A ‘character-building’ eight mile walk to the start then a ten m...

From the Guardian: Official: British are better at cooking than the French …A poll has undermined France's reputation as the home of unr...

This morning as I munched my brekkie (and swiftly followed it up with my lunch, a la ZMKC ) in front of Sky’s coverage of the Bangladesh-Eng...

Saunton Sands in North Devon ought to be more famous really, it’s one of the Great bits of Britain. A vast, empty, undeveloped beach, normal...

Last night on an episode of Channel 4’s hard-hitting social documentary Come Dine with Me , a young lady uttered the following profundity: ...

...is toothache, as Thomas de Quincey or someone like that possibly said some time in history. I can dig it; a miniature molar is currently ...

...can live together in perfect harmony, side by side on my pyaano keyboard, O Lord, why can’t these alpacas on the alpaca farm* down the ro...

In one of his occasional bursts of iconoclasm (previous targets have included Roald Dahl , who never did me any harm , and Dylan Thomas ), t...

Up at Clifton Down on Saturday the Suspension Bridge shone in the callow Spring sun, but I had eyes only for the poem which adorns the teles...

Further investigation into the theory that Obama doesn’t like us very much has yielded the following information : Mr Brown handed over care...

Over at Gaw’s place I mentioned my intuition that Obama doesn’t like us very much. I follow current affairs only in an idle sort of way bec...