Every year OUP (Oxford University Press) has an online book sale. In the past this has been the source of some really good reading at excell...

Credit to Kecske Bak for so delightfully contorting the " Album Cover Game "!

Here's how the "Album Cover Game" works. 1 - Go to wikipedia and hit random. The first random wikipedia article you get is the...

Pierrepoint is the moody and brooding biopic of Britain's most high-profile and prolific hangman. The film simply - but with great effe...

In summertime, when the Tay meanders its way down its riverbed, leaving wide stony slopes on each side - it is almost impossible to imagine ...

As with glass - so with ice...

Note - when the dishwasher is on a 'hot' wash programme; don't take any glass object out and immediately fill it with cold water...

The Coen brothers have achieved the unusual status of defining their films, even when they are packed with Hollywood A- listers . O Brother...

Paul Gross' film Passchendaele is a World War One epic, which brings home the mass horror of trench warfare by telling the story of on...

Layers of sedimentary lasagne, laid down over millions of years and folded by immense geological forces.... (er, or something)

In our house we often welcome in the New Year with a seasonal singalong to this seasonal sensation....

Stuart 'Woolly' Wolstenholme, April 15th, 1947 - 13th December, 2010 Tributes from all over the world are pouring in for Stuart ...

"For seven years I was College Chaplain and Worcester College, Oxford. Each year I used to see the first year undergraduates individua...

Is this sign language and can anyone interpret for me?

The film-maker Charles Burnett was caught up in the Great Migration of African-Americans between the segregated South, and the economic and ...

The rider was rescued unharmed and is inside defrosting...

Perth has become icicle-world this week - great shards of ice hanging like curtains from guttering groaning under their weight.

After Spike Milligan's death, a small library of books were produced by all manner of people who either knew him, or researched him. Som...

Curse these modern-type wheelie-bins, folks!

Paul Jones and his wife Fiona Hendley were at our church last week, talking about their lives and 'showbiz'(!). Paul was an atheist ...

I remember standing outside The Kremlin one icy November day and watching Mikhail Gorbachev, François Mitterand and their entourages, sweepi...

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights contains the following statement, listed as Article 18: 'Everyone has the right to freedom of ...

Not the blitz - just the haar At least one of these white masses is a solid mountain... The Tay steams in the morning sun

Over the last few years loads of people seem to have given up blogging. For many people Facebook has taken over as a place to post brief me...