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Just this second received my contributor copies of A Day In The Life , which is a nice, chunky volume. Looking forward to reading it. Even m...

A wiser man than me recently ticked off my pronouncing the 't' in 'often'. It's meant to have a glottal stop, he said. R...

Lyrics to a song about the building of Clifton Suspension Bridge , from Great! , Bob Godfrey's Oscar-winning, animated musical biography...

A king stands on the grassy peak of a hill, at some point between the Romans sodding off and the Normans sodding on. From this vantage, he h...

If IMDB and my maths are correct, then Peter Davison was 29 when he sat up on his elbows and looked a bit bewildered. So, as of today, I am...

Just back this afternoon from some days in Italy, where I helped nice people clear what was once a compost heap and will soon be a workshop....

Oh, the urban dictionary just get's better and better. A chum sends me this listing : Guerrieri Chief Guerrieri of the Toke-a-lotta-we...

I love Dr Who . It'd be ungallant to reveal anything before the episode has been shown, but hooray for another whole year of Billie, and...

During recording of The Coup last summer, the Brigadier* asked about the derivation of my surname. It's French for 'warrior', b...

Went to see Batman Begins at the IMAX last night, to review it for Film Focus . No Catwoman. Hardly any women. But cool, though.

Something Changed is in. Done. Delivered. 84,883 words. Details of authors and the blurb will be forthcoming. Oh, and apparently the author...

'A hippie is a Countercultural with political rationale. A crusty is an aggressively or else helplessly unhygienic ditto: with extra rig...

Revenge of the Sith is better the second time round. Went with two of the brothers and the Doctor - who was shocked by the all-out violence...

A quite scary glut of years ago, back when I believed in that sort of thing, I used to be an altar-boy for this bloke . Which, er, means I c...

A week to go, and I still have entirely no idea what Bad Wolf might be, though surely it's not what Popbitch thinks (highlight to read...

The Doctor's experiments with her camera continue, and here is a splendid shot of Pierre Vivant's traffic light tree sculpture at Ca...

Blackadder on last night, with Stephen Fry as the Duke of Wellington, blathering about Nelson being up in the Arctic. Bah. Wellington and Ne...

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