It's been too hot. I can't sleep. My brain has melted: 35° C during the day and over 20° C at night (a so-called "tropical nigh...

Boundary stone on the Downs I was in Bristol for a few days this week, and one afternoon between rain showers went for a walk across the Dow...

I do enjoy a good rant, and a while ago there was an excellent one in the Guardian  from Tom Service of BBC Radio 3 (the classical music and...

I was recently diverted to the blog Laudator Temporis Acti  from a post in Language Hat  (no relation), and came across this interesting ext...

Babylon Living on a constantly rotating planet (what, you hadn't noticed?) we experience a regular succession of periods of darkness and...

Sometimes, I'm sure, this blog does veer into the lane labelled "too much information". After all, why should anyone care abou...

St. George? Who? Today is, of course, universally celebrated as the (putative) date of both the birth and death of the secular saint of worl...