The Plashing Vole

Click here for a larger image, and move your mouse over it for a hidden message. Rather poignantly, it reads 'You know what really help...

A few days ago, I wrote about how friendly and helpful Halfords were when I took my bike in for the brake and gear cables to be changed. I d...

How are you all? I had a wonderful few days, and loved travelling through four countries (Britain, France, Belgium and Germany) by train on ...

This picture of an interloper at Lake Minnewanka (no sniggering) has been round the world this week - the lil' fella was investigating t...

I am forsaking you, leaving you to wander the streets clutching bottles of Mad Dog 20/20 (great website, by the way), staring with mute des...

Yet again, Lauren Laverne proves that she should be the national Maximum Leader. Without even mentioning Kenickie .

Yet again, the American healthcare 'debate' reaches a new low. You wouldn't think that Obama won an election and a mandate hands...

Sorry for the rubbish film quality, but this is the USB humping dog Pritpal presented me with on my birthday, humping Neal's laptop into...

Welcome to a site that's going to become a favourite of mine: Awful Library Books . Emma, Gary and I went to see The Third Man at the L...

Courtesy of the Guardian's Diary . US Investor's Business Daily : "The controlling of medical costs in countries such as Britai...

As told by Alex Ross in The New Yorker this month, the composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein was believed to be a Communist by the ...

First in an occasional series. 1. If you start urinating through your belly-button, you'll need a big operation and a month in hospital....

Here's one of my favourite tracks of all time, Dobie Gray's 'Out on the Floor'. It's Northern Soul, of which you may hav...

Make sure you watch Channel 4 News tomorrow - noon or evening. Wolverhampton's academic redundancies will feature as part of a piece on ...

It's not often that I'm moved to buy a book by someone of whom I've never heard, on the strength of an academic article. Er, OK,...

We whinge and protest about the NHS a lot - and it certainly gets things wrong - but virtually everyone outside the New Labour bubble and To...

Here's a little task for you. I looked at my clothes yesterday, and realised that I'm in a bind. Most of my clothes would suit an ac...

Do you drink Relentless? It's one of those horrible energy drinks. I've always thought that there's a dark undertow to the name:...

It turns out that I'm not the only member of my family desperate to inflict his or her views on an unsuspecting public. My Dublin sister...

If anyone's in Wolverhampton tomorrow, The Light House cinema is showing The Third Man , one of the best films of the 20th-century - a ...