Author: Richard Carter

For several months now, Jen and I have been plagued by mice (Muscus musculus). This evening, it started to get stupid. We were sitting in our living room, enjoying the end of a bottle of wine in front of a roaring fire, when a mouse walked into the room, sauntered over to the record collection,… Continue reading Dispatches from the Rodent Wars

BBC: India marvels at 'miracle chapati' Hundreds of Christian pilgrims and other curious onlookers have been making their way to a church in Bangalore in India to see a chapati which has the image of Christ burnt into it. Well, after all, Jesus was supposed to be the bread of life.

Do runner beans set pulses racing?

Guardian: Pampered prince puts sun king in shade His lifestyle would seem extravagant to Louis XIV: a team of four valets so that one is always available to lay out and pick up his clothes; a servant to squeeze his toothpaste on to his brush, and another who once held the specimen bottle while he… Continue reading Pampered

Buy Bruce Sprinsgsteen tickets That'll do nicely. Then, just a few hours later... BBC: Moors Murderer Hindley dies The day just gets better and better.

Ladies and Gentlemen, to celebrate the new (admittedly sparse) Songs & Poems section of this website, I give you Elizabeth Hurley.

If there's one thing that irritates me more than Freudian bullshit, it's Freudian bullshit being applied to my hero, Charles Darwin. You can imagine my reaction, therefore, to reading the following in the latest edition of The London Review of Books: 'Any form represented by few individuals,' Darwin wrote in The Origin of Species, 'will,… Continue reading The Origin of the Specious

I just came up with a crap joke: Q: Why do so many Americans wear T-shirts? A: Because they have a constitutional right to bare arms. Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!