Today marks the 25th anniversary of my friendship with Stense.
Author: Richard Carter
A fat, bearded chap with a Charles Darwin fixation.
Not wishing to be pedantic, but…
The Spectator doesn't seem to understand the concept of a peer-group.
Come again?
In which a fishmonger enquires about Easter.
HOLD THE FRONT PAGE!
‘Katy Perry joins Taylor Swift v Nicki Minaj row – and brings Rihanna with her’ shock!
Common Ground
by Rob Cowen A strange book about a local edge-land. This book, which has received rave reviews, wasn't what I expected. I was expecting a fairly typical ‘nature writing’ account of the author's local patch of edge-land near Harrogate in Yorkshire. Perhaps I should have read the dust-jacket more carefully: Blurring the boundaries of memoir,… Continue reading Common Ground
Urne-burial
by Sir Thomas Browne Reflections on the iniquity of oblivion. I first encountered the seventeenth-century polymath Sir Thomas Browne in an essay by one of my favourite writers, Stephen Jay Gould. Many years later, I encountered him again in W.G. Sebald's mastepiece, The Rings of Saturn. Sebald refers to Browne's essay on an ancient urn-burial… Continue reading Urne-burial
Taste the difference
Sainsbury's reckon they're selling ten-years old chickens.
His armpit hairs are sprouting
Video: The Fall, ‘British People in Hot Weather’.
Book review: ‘The Jeeves Omnibus, vol. 1’ by P.G. Wodehouse
What-ho!
Sir Thomas Browne: a life
by Reid Barbour Biography of a 17th-century polymath. An academic, though entertaining biography of the 17th-century polymath, Sir Thomas Browne. I struggled a bit in places, as, being an academic book, it assumed greater prior knowledge in the reader than I actually had.