Still Life With Cat

The part of my job that I routinely most enjoy is the piling-up and eventual ripping-open of bags of new books for review. Today, one of the...

Going out the back door late tonight to put some stuff away in the shed, I noticed that the pet patio spider into the remnants of whose web ...

A friend and regular reader of this blog emailed me a couple of hours ago about that last post to say that he'd looked up singulars and ...

Perhaps you remember the story of Ariadne , who saved Theseus's bacon when he went into the labyrinth to search for the Minotaur. She st...

1915 1917 See also here . 1935 My dad, aged 8, with his parents. On the back of this little photograph my grandfather has written, in his fo...

The forecast says that late tomorrow morning it will start to rain and won't stop for a week, so that's my Thursday morning taken ca...

Sometimes having a To Do list gets a bit irksome -- just one damn thing after another...

Because I am supposed to be a grown-up, and because I made a promise, I'm not buying into the question of the literary stag night 2009 ...

Someone on Facebook this morning is lamenting the fact that every time he decides to have a big declutterfest at home, he ends up keeping ab...

Who knows how much of it is true, but I've just been perusing the Wikipedia article on pavlova, directed there by Deborah in a post at h...

Mungo McCallum in today's Crikey: Once again Malcolm Turnbull is appealing to Gough Whitlam for help. Kevin Rudd’s proposal to broadband...

One minute you're doing what you fondly imagined would be a half-hour cull of the underwear drawer and the next minute you're out in...

I'd not heard of Maria Quinn before her first novel The Gene Thieves turned up chez moi for review, but I spent the first hour of this...

Since 7 am yesterday, yes, Good Friday, the renovators have been at it next door, and by 'next door' I mean 'through the party w...

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart M - Th 11p / 10c Baracknophobia - Obey thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Economic Crisis Political ...

There's no time to look it up, for there are chocolate bunnies and assorted hot cross buns to be bought, Aged Ps to visit and yet more A...

Since the bride and Ampersand Duck between them have already provided lovely accounts, in one case lavishly illustrated, of Laura and Dori...

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Q: How long does it take to get bored with the new iron? A: About seven teatowels.

Unfortunately, at the moment, very little of it is bloggable for one reason or another, and there's too much going on for there to be ti...