So Cold The River by Michael Koryta A man in a bowler hat, a haunting violin and a bottle of curious sulphuric tasting water. Did I mention water? Whatever you do, ...

Putting the Wikio rankings out on a Sunday? I don't know! Anyway, I thought I'd put them up while I had a few spare minutes to make me feel less ...

Maybe it's just the way my mind works, but when I saw this tweet from the soon to be doomed to defeat Ed Balls' Cheerleader-in-Chief, my first thought was to ...

Today's Scotland on Sunday carries a story about how the Scottish Conservatives are licking their wounds because they've been left out in the cold since the General Election.Apparently David Cameron has ...

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God, dinner party conversation has died a death since the advent of foodie-ism. In fact, you can't get away from it at any bloody meal, or at least, not at ...

One can only imagine what life was like in the Annexe for Anne Frank. The Anne Frank Huis is now an empty shell which echoes with the footsteps of pilgrims. ...

It's been a wee while since I've done one of these round ups of good blog posts I've read, and this one is primarily going to welcome some new blogs ...

There's all sorts of questions being asked about whether Andy Coulson was aware of phone tapping being carried out by journalists working for him when he was editor of the ...

Things are really looking up. Today's the last day of Recess, and The Boss still isn't speaking to me, so Greg has to do surgery again. The usual suspects seem ...

Over on Debbi Mack's blog, someone asked me: Lee, you said that you would advise new authors (unpublished) to take a contract with a small press over self-publishing. Could you expand ...

Stephen's tagged me in this meme from Facebook, Like him, I thought I'd cross post here, but with some additional notes. There are some who might think I should hang ...

Walking nervously into the grounds of a local primary school earlier this week, Mrs B and I embarked on the first of our NHS-funded 'Parent Craft' lessons. Literally going back to ...

Yes, we know it’s September, but nevertheless we have given our OmniFootball site a bit of a spring clean. The most notable change you’ll notice is that a lot of the ...

Like many others, I'm sad to see that former Liberal MP Cyril Smith passed away today at the age of 82.He certainly didn't fit the beard and sandalled hippy liberal ...

I hate computers. Nothing in the world, not even football these days, makes me angrier. Last night I decided to treat myself to a new computer game (and by new ...

It's been a frustrating — and not unsurprising — week for Nottingham Forest. Despite months of chasing certain players, and Billy Davies' declaration of the need for 'four or five ...

People in the Inverness area have a new radio station, Monster FM, for the next month, staffed by local young people who've spent many months learning how the world of ...

Congratulations to Dundee's Cllr Fraser MacPherson on breaking into the Total Politics Top 10 Councillor Blogs with a 7 place rise to number 9. It's a great achievement and shows how ...

Well not him, exactly, his book.I was amused last night by this group on Facebook who has suggested that those of us who are no great fans of our ex ...