More than just wine

So this is the overall result so far, as we are now half-way through the current test match series of 4 games beween the 2 top cricketing na...

Here in Europe it is summer at last, after a spring that made summer look very precocious and a month of July that depressed many by its col...

Yes, I know that I have not been posting a lot recently, but, after all, these are supposed to be holidays and it is pretty hard to write bl...

Henry Saint Clair Fredericks is the real name of the blues singer who uses the stage name of  Taj Mahal.  (nice shirt by the way) I have...

A four match cricket test series is about to start (on Thursday at Lord's cricket ground, the spiritual home of the game, between Englan...

Many newspapers, especially English ones, have recently been full of the "woes" of a certain Rupert Murdoch, whose horribly trashy...

I do not expect that many of you will have heard of this author, who writes in serbo-croat. Some of his works have been translated, and I re...

Jeremy Clarkson makes me laugh, and that is a considerable quality. I know that he annoys a lot of righteous-thinking people as well, and th...

A friend of mine sent me this, which I really enjoy. It so happens that we both have cats (and not dogs) which could just explain our apprec...

Here is the first picture of the almost finished bike. All is now in place, and she is running, according to Frank Chatokhine (who should kn...