History   More Adventures in Kilt and Khaki: Sketches of the Glasgow Highlanders and others in France is the World War One memoir of Thomas...

Books Done. After nearly eight years and seventy odd novels, my read through these particular Eighth Doctor stories completed with a six ...

TV  I've never seen Terror of the Zygons . For some readers, that is like admitting I've never seen Star Wars. But the truth...

The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall visit Borough Market , a photo by The British Monarchy on Flickr.

Nature Mariska the equine Houdini : "The Friesian opens her stables door then those of her stableyard fellows, top and bottom, lett...

Books In my haste to post my review last night I got the title of the book wrong with a correction offered by the author (thanks Trevor) w...

Beverages Interestingly, a search through Pepys's diaries doesn't provide much of a mention of Mrs. Pepys's skills in that par...

Books Lovefilm care packages sit unwatched (Carlos the Jackal and A Prophet) as the momentum creeps up on me to finish reading these novel...

Psychology Are you telekinetic? This online test allows you to find out . Maybe: "To begin the test, press START. If, at any time,...

TV   There's still life in this old post yet , but since this is practically new Doctor Who news I'll post the update below too for ...

Books Yesterday after reading the news that someone’s been cast as Delia Derbyshire in Mark Gatiss’s drama documentary about the making o...

Religion The subtle (or not) irony of carrying columns about religion on news websites . On the left, David Loy, Zen teacher writes for t...

Film Sometimes urban legends are true. Ernie Hudson did audition to play his Ghostbusters character Winston in the animated series but wa...

Science To New York, where authorities say scamming within the psychic community may be rife, "clients" paying thousands of doll...

Nature G1 reports on this "rain of spiders" captured by designer Erick Reis in Santo Antonio da Platina in Brazil . But as th...

Magazines  Whenever I meet proper fans of the series, the kind who'll laugh at jokes about Monoids and know what a death defying role...

TV Doctor Who merchandising's official site has announced the dvd (and blu-ray!) release schedule for the rest of the year : Februar...

Life  After the attack of nerves which greeted my attendance of the press view for the Tate's Alice in Wonderland, I was relatively at e...

Art Glam, or as the title of Tate Liverpool’s new exhibition has it, Glam! (the exclamation mark oh so very important in this context) i...

Food Perhaps unsurprisingly Quorn's own website has a vast array of recipes for their fungal meat substitute . Last time I tried it, ...