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Have just finished Right ho, Jeeves , in which Bertram Wooster finds himself in tricky circs. as he struggles to help out his chums. Newting...

Spent some of today ringing round people trying to make something happen. Fingers crossed it will all go swimmingly, but there's somethi...

Some of my more bookish correspondents complain that I did not include full details of the volumes received on Saturday. Having counted agai...

A bread-maker, a zippy remote-control K9, lots of fine booze (including – hurrah! – some Bolly), a chair-to-come, a Dalek cake with genuine ...

Had lunch with the parents yesterday, at which my Mum told me a top fact: between three and three-thirty in the afternoon thirty years ago, ...

“Some people act a memory, the Superintendent thought, noticing his concentration, others have one. In the Superintendent’s book, memory w...

'Scuse the inordinant boasting, but somewhat to my amazement people like me. Last year they really didn't , which just adds to the s...

Went to the opera yesterday, darlings, to see Mozart’s Cosi Fan Tutte. “That was simply lovely,” said the bloke next to me as it finished, ...

Busy, busy, busy. Written up half an interview from last night, done even more research, started a story (which also involved some investiga...

A hot, sticky day and I've spent all of it cooped up in doors, going through cardboard boxes of old Droo's magazine. Am amassing a h...

M’learned colleague Ebb of Weevil has posted a fine list of terms deemed unsavoury by the Speaker of the House of Commons. For example, it ...

24 hours after landing at Gatwick and it's like we were never away. A long day's editorial at the office - reviewing the efforts of ...

It seems a lifetime ago now, but after scary-cool Droo on Saturday we jumped into the car with my parents and drove down to Portsmouth, in ...

The title of this post comes from Withnail & I’s deleted Scene 60, in which there’s a swordfight (no, really). It’s one of many marvels ...

Are two words I learnt yesterday. Something at work was said to be “impliedly defined” and I hazarded that this might be bollocks. Word cert...

“Many different styles can be characterised as Modernist, but they shared certain underlying principles: a rejection of history and applied ...

Have proofed "Incongruous details" , which will now be published in July. Also looked over something else related, but you'll ...

"At age fourteen, by a process of osmosis, of dirty jokes, whispered secrets and filthy ballads, Tristan learned of sex. When he was fi...

This crime-fighting story amused me. It's kind enough to explain what "daggy" means, but not "hoons". I assume it&#...

Went to the exhibition of Michelangelo’s sketches at the British Museum (until 25 June) which was really rather busy. In between getting sh...