Further egg mystery from Ananova.[…]

C81 vs C86: a defense of the latter would surely (and appropriately) rest on r-ck-st criteria such as ‘coherence’ and ‘flow’. C81 feels like a tape a knowledgeable friend made for you at semi-random. C86 feels like a ‘re[…]

In Doctor Doolittle And The Secret Lake Dr. D goes to a secret lake, there he talks to a giant turtle who is the only living thing who remembers the flood! This giant turtle knows the secrets of the ages (I’ve forgotten what they are exactly), […]

There is some debate as to which small monkey this actually is:
the pygmy marmoset? (caution very small indeed)
or the tarsier, voted the official world’s cutest animal in 1997 despite brazenly overdoing the big eye ‘thing’ in my ra[…]

INCIDENTALLY WE HAVE A CLUB ON NEXT THURSDAY AT THE POLAR BEAR.
Ahem.
Lion of the North! They’re not actually white you know, more a kind of grubby cream colour. They devour seals and mints in equal measure. Perennial British wildlife TV favour[…]

(NB the #18 animal will appear soon, we have commissioned an expert in the field to write a piece and will publish it out of sequence!)
My work has been on a drive to get everyone to complete their profiles on the Company Intranet. This is 3000 peopl[…]

In the Finnish department store they laid out the CDs as follows:
– Classical and non; then
– Finnish language and non; then
– Mid and full price.
The racking policies of big shops are culturally significant. In Britain HMV’s […]

Only a 4 for I’m Going Slightly Mad??!!
Popular hit its 200th No.1 yesterday, and this morning I find another P-inspired blog, this one with a slightly different focus: reviewing every Queen single! Best of luck. Queen are a good choice for thi[…]

Country Glamour: great title, great concept – “Country music sits with you at the bar while you down crap beer and wallow in your own misery. People who say “I like everything except country” are also, conveniently, the stupid[…]

Giant Drinks
I’m a sucker for giant size drinks. They make me feel like I’m in the pub version of Mr.Greedy.* At an gimmicky Austrian restaurant in West London last year I enjoyed myself with one-litre steins, in Tampere I had the opportu[…]