Oh, breakfast. Grilled cheese sandwich with two slices of ham in the middle. There's a problem with this sandwich, which is that the ham doesn't submi...
World Championship snooker from the BBC, my one enthusiasm in the world of sport (although traditionally it was classed as a game). Probably the best ...
Yes indeed, and the North of England too, and probably Wales, and probably Ireland. They're called dry stone (or drystane) dykes. They do courses in h...
If I were First Minister of Scotland I would donate three quarters of this season's Scottish rain to Spain, as I'm aware of your drought. There's been...
/uploads/resized/files/72/4ugheyw7gnr87tog.jpeg Good to be in the old country for a while. You can’t see it in this photograph but there was a goose n...
It’s lined up and ready to go; I’ll report back when I get around to reading it. I tried a few pages and liked it. A bit like Pynchon’s Mason & Dixon ...
I like wine glasses because I can grip the glass without smearing it with my greasy fingers, and they’re good for connoisseurs who want to keep the wi...
I think some passages are translated beautifully, like Katzman’s monologue about the temple of culture near the end, but yeah, the dialogue is really ...
Just finished it. It’s fascinating but difficult. I have a feeling that some of the difficulty is down to what seems to me like a not-so-great transla...
I deleted it because it was extremely low quality. Please calm down and approach this topic in a rational, thoughtful, philosophical manner, or risk h...
I approve. As a child I used to go to Nardini’s cafe for ice cream floats, otherwise known as coke floats. Coca-Cola in a tall sundae glass with a sco...
Crash is more uncompromising and better executed than Super-Cannes, and I found it intellectually stimulating, though I can’t say I liked it. Same goe...
Plodding, plot-driven, prurient, old-fashioned in a certain upper middle class colonial English kind of way, and incredibly boring. I don’t know why I...
Last night we were without electricity and discovered that scented candles are bloody useless for illumination. Therefore my advice is to stock up on ...
The history of YKK, the zipper king. https://youtu.be/9d6eNmtHFQk It’s is the kind of uselessly interesting viewing that works for me right now, while...
I was not aware of any corned beef connection to St Patrick’s Day. The last time I joined in the celebrations was in 1999 or 2000, and I was in Liverp...
Nobody says anything about Burns Night or St Andrew’s Day, even though there are more active Scotspeople than Irishpeople on TPF. I guess we don’t hav...
The interesting thing to me is how different they seem at different ages. I’ve read Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess three times. The first two times...
I have a few things going: Getting into Death, a collection of stories by Thomas M. Disch. The one called “The Asian Shore” is top tier. Check it out....
I stand corrected. According to Google Ngram Viewer, in British English it was popular in the early to mid nineties before dropping off for a while, f...
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