The Pork Pie Club is an urgent and key reference for all of our readers! I mean it’s a shame they’re in YORKSHIRE but apart from that they’re a noble and marvellous tribute to the Art of the pork pie. Beautifully enough, the Pork P[…]

Sea of Souls billed as a supernatural drama with lovely Bill Paterson was not what I wanted. I feel guilty wasting blog real-estate explaining why it went wrong, why the establishing story failed to establish anything, including the main characters, […]

“part of the collective swagger of a scene that’s on the up and brimming with confidence is having a name and using it”: on the other hand knowing something’s name = having power over it, including commercial power. A scene-na[…]

They’re all heroes of ours, ain’t they? Further to Mark’s post below, John will no doubt be amazed when he gets back to Blighty to find that his trusty old tactic, swearing on live TV, still works almost thirty years on.
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I was playing Peter Rabbit’s Race Game this evening! – another survivor from the weekend’s excavation of my parents’ soon-to-be old house*. Of course all race games are race games (Wikipedia claims a common ancestor in the &#8[…]

Reading the list on Tom’s boardgame link to see how many I’d played down the years, I quickly found myself cheating: eg Dover Patrol is just a version of L’Attaque, so that counts as TWO etc. Then I started wondering, are there mayb[…]

Massive thumbs-up to Independance Records – the quickest online shop I think I’ve ever used, records ordered at half three yesterday and on the doorstep this morning with very reasonable postage. Highly recommended to those few readers wh[…]

Even though I study and eat Japanese, I’ve always wondered who managed to come up with the name POKARI SWEAT?!? Ridiculous yo![…]

Since curries are the flavah of da month (sigh…), I wanted to pitch in with my favourite curry dishes. I think one of the first food preparations I served my boyfriend was a completely faux curry from some Hawaiian cook book. It’s basical[…]

The United States government has boldly (ha ha) banned Courier New 12.
“In an internal memorandum distributed on Wednesday, the department declared “Courier New 12″ – the font and size decreed for US diplomatic documents for y[…]