Nigeness

Well, I'm back in Blighty, after a very wonderful (but not blog-friendly) sojourn in Wellington, a city I like even more with every visi...

I'm happy to report that the second-hand book trade continues to thrive here in Wellington. All of the three bookshops I wrote about tw...

One of Chuck Jones's rules for the animated world inhabited by Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner was that 'All materials, tools, we...

Yesterday I dropped in on an interesting exhibition at Wellington's National Portrait Gallery – Frances Hodgkins: People. Hodgkins, th...

It's always good to discover a new word, even if its likely fate is to languish unused in some remote recess of the verbal mind until ...

Browsing in Nabokov's Pnin , I came across this passage describing the eponymous Professor's search for rooms to rent in a private h...

Here, for your delectation, are the Hanging Gardens of Babylon as you never saw them before – constructed entirely from Lego. This wonder ...