George Lazenby sells Fry's Turkish Delight

I enjoyed Premium Bond , Matthew Sweet and Mark Gatiss's canter through the James Bond films the other evening. One thing they did not m...

HETL chemist presents paper at national meeting

Jamie Foss, Chemist II with the Forensic Chemistry Section at Maine CDC's Health and Environmental Testing Lab (HETL), recently presente...

Jonathan Meades on Dennis Potter

This blog's hero Jonathan Meades reviews a selection of Dennis Potter's non-fiction in the Literary Review . He questions Potter...

Brief Encounter still moves us 70 years on

View image | gettyimages.com There was a tremendous episode of The Film Programme about Brief Encounter on Radio 4 yesterday. Listen to it...

Martin Amis and the left

Introducing his attack on Jeremy Corbyn the Sunday Times described Martin Amis, improbably, as "a leading figure on the British left fo...

Food Reward Friday

This week's lucky "winner"... the Reese's PBC Burger!! Image credit: The Works Read more »

Little Gems

Between Little Gem posts follow  us on  Facebook  and  Instagram We have a few extra kit available for our  We Wish You a Mini Christmas Sew...

Breakfast Buddies Battle

Anyone with an ounce of sense will tell you it's ridiculous.  You think it's ridiculous.  There are certain books though, books you ...

Public Image Ltd get it together in the country

"Well, punk was really a reaction against people like me, wasn’t it?" as Steve Winwood once said. So there is a delicious irony t...