The Plashing Vole

Have you ever seen a man so camp? (More pics here , or click these ones to engorge). Cheshire County Council's footpath markings an...

Firstly, a massive happy birthday to Cynical Ben. He's a git, but he's my git. It's also Zoot Horn's birthday - the coolest ...

Hello readers. How've you spent the weekend? Emma, from her ever so slightly smug texts, has been surfing, rafting, lolling in a hammo...

Concerts and curries weren't the end of my weekend. Most of Sunday was spent lounging in bed, wearing my very best smoking jacket, mar...

I'm not normally very impressed with my creative skills, but I took a photograph of Dan yesterday of which I'm really quite proud. I...

Dan loves gulls - he's even doing a PhD on them (and other urban wildlife). Even the sealife's friendlier in Norway. The locals were...

Morning everybody. It's a good day. I've done 56 lengths again, it's a little gloomy, and the rain's beating on the window l...

Lou asked in a comment why we're called the Map Twats and whether the second word has acquired a new meaning. Er… it has for us, denoti...

Our art department is housed in a 1970s block which was probably very fashionable, but is now a rotting heap of concrete. However, kestrels ...

Management aren't the only things preying on us: kestrels are breeding on the art department building. I'll take some photos sometim...

Thanks to Dan, who spotted these miserable bastards and thought I'd have something in common with them. They do, however, understand ne...

Despite my habitual whinging, this institution can be the source of great bounty: Neal and I have just acquired professional quality tripods...

It's Dan's birthday, so everybody wish him well. Thanks to breaking a window with his football, Dan's spending his birthday cutt...

I'm off now. To sunny Stafford for Dan's partner's 40th. Then my Germanic chum (like that, Deer Friend) Felix is coming for the ...

Cynical Ben has spent most of the last week setting up a variety of blogs under pseudonyms. It now appears that they are all part of a new ...

Dan got quite shirty with me a few months ago when I misidentified a constellation. Now, serendipitously, xkcd has immortalised the exchange...

Manchester Museum is looking for an environmental hermit to live in a garret and think green thoughts for 8 weeks (we're all going to p...

Thanks to Dan and Georgie for their hospitality last night: top quality haggis, creamy cranachan and deep, dark fondue and entertainment! No...

Two of them, anyway.