Time to update your bookmarks: Nate is BACK.[…]

Hard-working words
I saw in Smiths last night that Stephen Donaldson had written one last Thomas Covenant book. Imagine my delight! Not at the existence of the book, you understand – more tedious leprosy shenanigans I expect – but at Dona[…]

The Advent Calendar Of Comics: Dec 7[…]

Mario Puzo’s The Godfather is that relatively rare thing: a book that most people agree is surpassed by its film adaptation(s). I agree too, but crikey, some of his other books are GREAT. I am very fond of The Sicilian, which takes the true-ish[…]

“In my box are such delights…” 2 of 3. (following this)
It’s easy to forget that the cosy children’s classics the BBC adapted in the 1980s had, when written, acute psychological relevance to their audience. OK that audie[…]

“In my box are such delights…”: 1 of 3.
The Box Of Delights DVD does itself no favours by opening with a montage of adverts for other BBC “children’s classics” – The Chronicles Of Narnia, The Borrowers, Five […]

B-b-but that’s not about Christmas, participants whinged. You better believe it is. As a nipper “We’re Off To See The Wizard” was more of a carol to me than “Silent Night”. Dorothy’s ruby slippers conjured up[…]

Pub Science Experiment #1
Pub 5: The Railway Tavern, Crouch End Hill, N8
Category: Railway
First things first: this Railway is not near a railway. There was a railway around here once, but it’s long gone.
The next thing I should say is that I […]

Christmas! Nudity! Pop! Dwarves! This one has it all![…]

Test Match – The Best Christmas Present Ever
Or at least, the most pleasure I ever got from an old skool (non-computer) game.
There was a Subbuteo forerunner to Test Match. In typical Subbuteo style, it came with loads of static extras; nice l[…]