When looking for a picture to give your website a nice Christmassy feel, don't, whatever you do, search Google for images of ‘holly’ if your good lady happens to be watching.
Nonsense
The Wild Boys
It's not often that you will find the driving forces behind Gruts and Duran Duran in total agreement.
Carrying a torch
Jen's uncle provisionally chosen to be Olympic torch-bearer.
[My emphasis added]
BP pledged £10M to London.
State-sponsored religious indoctrination of children
Stense has emailed me a link to a funny video on YouTube.
Kim Jong? ill?
Mystic Meg's advice to the late North Korean dictator.
More of a Guardian reader myself
BBC: Sun 'stops chickenpox spreading'.
Seasonal tip
If you don't like Brussels sprouts, you're almost certainly cooking them too long.
Book Review: ‘The Age of Wonder:’ by Richard Holmes
How the Romantic generation discovered the beauty and terror of science.
Book review: ‘Under the Sun: the letters of Bruce Chatwin’
The correspondence of an unusual and gifted writer.