Wells
Great quote from H.G. Wells in amner’s review of The Island of Dr Moreau by H.G. Wells. An animal may be ferocious and cunning enough, but it takes a real man to tell a lie.
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Dave
Richard Yates on Palimpsest
One of the great things about Palimpsest is the way it throws up quality discussions about authors I have never heard of. And it brings together fans of that author that might not otherwise ever get to discuss his (or…
Peter Singer
Interesting profile of the Austrailian philosopher Peter Singer in last Saturday’s Guardian Review. I remember reading a book of his for an essay on Practical Ethics for A-Level R.E. George W Bush and Peter Singer were born on the same…
Camping
Went camping this weekend in Montford Bridge. Here’s a few photos we took. Comments below each one. Here’s the inside view of the middle living area of our tent. The outside view of our ridiculously large tent. This might well…
Wrightipedia
At last! Sean Wright receives the honour of having his own page on Wikipedia!
Cantabriggia
Very pleasant trip to Cambridge yesterday, ostensibly to attend Bodies in the Bookshop, a Crime Writers’ meet-and-greet thing at Heffers bookshop. Met up with the ever amiable Simon Kernick who joined Al and me in the Eagle afterwards for some…
Detectulative
deteculative Originally uploaded by John Self. Excellent stuff from the Selfmeister Click the image to see a bigger, clearer version.
Flickring
Just realised how rude the title of this post sounds! Took a couple of photos of our little bungalow, and uploaded them to Flickr. The Nissen hut thing is meant to be a car port, but at the moment it…
Testing
Just testing an image to see which is the best size from Flickr to suit this blog template… Looks like ‘medium’ (500×375) is perfect!
Camera
We have invested in a new digital camera, so hopefully a few more photos will be appearing on here and on my criminally underused Flickr page. It looks like this: