Pavlov's Cat

If you are, try to get to this . Don't be fooled into thinking the 'medieval' tag makes it too specialist and academic for gener...

I am at once deeply honoured and completely freaked to have scored a mention in today's crikey.com.au 'Bias-O-Meter IV: The Blogosph...

One 'J_P_Z', a regular commenter at Larvatus Prodeo, has opined in the course of a bit of incomprehensible sledging of the great Le...

Suse at Pea Soup and Stephanie at humanities researcher 's mentions of the Winter Solstice have reminded me that I too celebrated the s...

An hour or two ago my computer screen started to go all shaky. OMG the computer is about to blow up, I'll have to get a new computer, an...

This is my personal blog, not a public forum. Any comment that's aggressive, hostile, barking or boring will be removed. Comments policy...

Even as we speak, they will be getting stuck into the $120-a-head gourment nosh (it had better be gourmet, at that price) at the Miles Frank...

... and I've written 3,000 words, about eight different books of fiction, in the last two days. 3,000 down, 260 to go, and then I can go...

I see that, yet again, some faux-macho psycho who has been spraying bullets around is being referred to exclusively in the news as 'the ...

The lost gold earring will always turn up. But it will only turn up after you have gone out and bought a new pair.

This has been a demented work week (and it's not over yet by a long shot) in which I have been too busy to blog, except to make a few ma...

The fifth biennial Adelaide Festival of Ideas takes place from July 5 to 8 and Festival Chair Mark Cully has asked three Adelaide bloggers -...

Through the bathroom window, you can hear the two plumbers, master and apprentice, struggling to navigate the drain-clearing machine through...