Holiday Reading
For me, holidays are a prime opportunity to pack in a LOT of reading. In previous years I’ve kicked off […]
For me, holidays are a prime opportunity to pack in a LOT of reading. In previous years I’ve kicked off […]
I previously did a post about our three Weimaraners (here). The puppy, Oliver, has grown up into a seriously athletic
This scene, from the movie City Slickers, is one of the few bits of a movie that I can remember
Edmund de Waal, a ceramic artist, is bequeathed a collection of 264 netsuke (small and intricate Japanese carvings) by a
I’m approaching my keyboard hesitantly. I have a little story to tell, but it strikes me as being one that
In the movie Up in the Air, George Clooney plays a permanently itinerant executive who is working towards his über-platinum
It should trouble me, when pulling on my cycling shorts, that Lycra is the primary component in a lot of
The transition from horse and carriage to motorcars killed the market for buggy whips. It’s the classic – probably clichéd
A few months ago I wrote a post in which I pondered whether democracy was making the credit crunch worse
We are weeks away from the world reaching a population of 7 billion (31 October, apparently), which adds up to