Cyclone Hudhud causes widespread damage in eastern India.
Author: Richard Carter
A fat, bearded chap with a Charles Darwin fixation.
Book review: ‘A Field Guide to Getting Lost’ by Rebecca Solnit
Getting lost as a way to finding yourself.
Violating Swiss neutrality
I was just wondering, entirely hypothetically, which would be the best route to take from Lissavruggy in County Galway to the Valvelspitze mountain in the Italian section of the Ötztal Alps.
Ditty
It was nice to see one of the local rags entering into the spirit of National Poetry Day last week.
A Lidl touch of glamour
The glamour has gone out of supermarkets. Put me in charge, and I'll soon add a touch of Hollywood sparkle.
Paul Foot on Quiche
The marketing techniques behind a quiche.
Board of fayre
Let me make this perfectly clear: if I'd wanted to eat food off a plank of wood, I'd have been born in the Middle Ages.
Paul
Last week, at around the time I was paddling on a beach in Anglesey, my old school friend Paul, who was always a tad more athletic than me, set off on a jog...
Brilliant
‘O Fortuna’ misheard lyrics.
Norbert
Do you think they're starting to scrape the barrel when it comes to hurricane names?