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The New Year’s Thing – Resolution, Recollection Or Reinvention?
You know the game. Sometime between Christmas and New Year you catch sight of yourself in a mirror and...
You know the game. Sometime between Christmas and New Year you catch sight of yourself in a mirror and...
Steve Holmes is (finally) blogging! His blog is called Shored Fragments (nice name) and it is looking very promising...
Another New Year’s… It’s been a very unusual sort of Christmastide, with in-laws visiting and a different feel to...
More pictures here. Hanoi, Vietnam
Around this time of year guilt-ridden, post-colonial, superficially-multicultural countries engage in an annual ritual. No, I’m not talking about...
Just returned from four very full and enjoyable days in HaNoi. Pictures and details to come…
Peter Chattaway has posted an excellent interview with Philip Pullman. It’s a very deep and revealing discussion that unpacks...
Given the choice, I would rather shop for a Christmas tree for myself. Given the role it plays in...
Today we had a bad Christmas Tree experience – actually it’s been a bad Christmas Tree season. In lieu...
According to this cute little test (HT to Thinker’s Progress) anyone with a High School reading age can make...
Another season of Advent is upon us and this year I won’t be running a series to commemorate the...
Whilst cleaning up some old notes, I stumbled on the following lyric ideas – written sometime in 2004. “A...
Today is a new day for Australia. The electorate has voted to reject the jaundiced, execrable and viturperous conservative...
A short while back I was browsing the art and design section of our local newsagent when a new...
Well, it looks like Apple will not be updating the ageing Mac Pro line-up before the end of the...
One of the slogans of our times is “support the troops,” with the variations “I support the troops,” or...