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Image by Getty Images via @daylife I have been going through the bookshelves recently, which has been fatal to any other activity and revea...

Image by Deerbourne via Flickr Or, the case of the missing tourist. No, not the one who disregarded the warning on the door of the wine c...

Image via Wikipedia The mind works in a mysterious way at times. I had been reading a history of science in the seventeenth century and ca...

Ayak, at Turkish Delight  has been kind enough to pass me the Heartfelt Blogger Award for blogs which make you feel cosy and warm inside. ...

President Sarkozy has been in London to commemorate Charles de Gaulle's wartime broadcast to France, in which he urged the French to res...

Winston Smith 's blog post about Liam. Then please ask yourself how it came about that the lunatics took over the asylum. How it is ...

Image via Wikipedia In the long ago days when French supermarket car parks numbered as many tractors as cars, I had friends with a holida...