Category Archives: Blather

If you were sensible and grown-up and so on, you wouldn’t laugh at this. Continue reading →

To a new home, where they won’t disturb the rest of us, and can continue to appear in peace. Another instalment has been added. Update: there are now seven entries and I have kept up at least once a day. Continue reading →

I’m sorry. I have not been posting here. I have been reading Yeats, and working on another blog, which wll contain masses and masses of cuttings, all wonderfully laid out and so on and so forth. But the Mary Warnock … Continue reading → Continue reading →

There are a couple of insurance horror stories doing the rounds at the moment from America. One concerns a programmer friend of Brad Choate’s, whose child has an expensive cancer which will go untreated if his father cannot find a … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Phone rings at half past eight this morning. A well-spoken, rather angry woman says “May I speak to Caroline?” “No. I’m afraid she’s out getting flowers. Can I take a message?” “No. I’ll call later.” “OK. Who shall I say … Continue reading → Continue reading →

My favourite quote in this story is a throwaway: “Grandma was a couple hundred pounds overweight”. It’s about a steakhouse in Texas, where you can eat five pounds of steak for free — providing you do so within an hour. … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Gay bishops. House painting. Hay fever. Sinusitis. Did I mention gay bloody bishops? Continue reading →

I have linked to The Whiskey Bar before. But I’ve just spent half an hour reading through some old posts, and I really think it’s the best political journalism anywhere on the web today. Continue reading →

couldn’t understand why it wasn’t called ‘Lord of the doughnuts’. Continue reading →

But it’s not the one you’re thinking of (if you’re a man): Personal ads are a potentially rich source of information on relationships, particularly mating strategies. Most research on personal ads has been limited to content analyses of naturally occurring … Continue reading → Continue reading →