Recently updated blogs

It’s been four years since I last wrote about Dishoom. In those four years they have established themselves as part of the Birmingham hierarchy, taking what is prime real estate and encouraging neighbours like Alberts Schloss, the voom-voom racey-racey place, Le Bellezza and the Yorks Coming Soon signage into the area. They’ve cooked bacon naans galore, served-up bottomless chai, and explained on numerous occasions that Ruby Murray is not in …

15% discount in The Nautilus Manuscript, The Orange Manuscript and Donau's Journey print during Black Friday week:https://josenaranja.blogspot.com/2017/11/shop.html

A stopover in Leeds for a gig with a few beers in a mixture of pubs and bars, which with some decent food to be had made for an enjoyable time predominantly wandering around a former edgy part of the city....I caught the train over to Leeds from Halifax, arriving in the city just before 5.30. I popped in to one of the several drinking places close by, the Friends …

As long as it works, right?

Chameleons* are among the most distinctive and charismatic of lizards, and a long list of anatomical features make them very unusual... Caption: Jackson’s chameleon Trioceros jacksonii in profile, one of the most famous and familiar of chameleon species. I’m one of many people who grew up knowing of this species as Chamaeleo jacksonii. Image: Benjamint444, CC BY-SA 3.0. Yes, here’s another effort to rescue a squamate article from the Tet …

There were a ton of 64DD games we didn’t get in the West for the Nintendo 64 but one that intrigued me the most was Mario Artist, is a suite of games and an app, including: Paint Studio Talent Studio Polygon Studio Communication Kit The suite transformed the N64 into a multimedia hub with Internet access and released in stages from 1999–2000 in Japan. In the above video, DidYouKnowGaming traced …

Welcome to Bees in the News, an irregular newsletter that is even less regular than it should be due to my house move, and is only available to sponsors of The Apiarist. Each contains short(ish) newsworthy articles and comments on a range of bee and beekeeping topics. Some might justify a full post at some point in the future, others you may never hear about again.Inevitably - reflecting my bias …

I’m not sure there’s been any product I’ve had a more mixed relationship with than the AirPods Max. I returned my first pair…then missed them just enough to buy a second, which I’ve kept. Rarely a day goes by where they don’t piss me off in one way or another…yet rarely a day goes by where I don’t use them anyway. What I like If I’m buying headphones, I’m buying …

Wally is enjoying a (very adventurous) vacation in Skartaris with his family. Meanwhile, Wally is…waitaminute…ALSO in the Watchtower? That’s where we left off last issue. Don’t worry, all will be explained, although it will more than slightly blow your mind. There are all sorts of dangers for both Wally and…Wally in this issue, and there are still plenty of mysteries to be explored. Wanna know more? Follow us after the …

Offrez des évasions livresques ! La fin de l’année approche à grands pas et, avec elle, l’obligation d’offrir des cadeaux à la famille, la belle-famille, les amis. Difficile d’échapper à cette pression consumériste sans passer pour un rustre. Tenter le cadeau réutilisable ? Le Cadeau réutilisable (ploum.net) Mais le meilleur cadeau réutilisable n’est-il pas un livre qui peut se partager, se prêter, se perdre, se retrouver ? Alors voici quelques …

Are you entertaining this season? And do you have vegetables to get rid of? Although these questions may seem unrelated, the historical newspapers have the perfect recipe to squash boredom and turnip the fun. Read on for nutritious party games your friends will talk about for years to come. . . even if they stop Read More

Our tech use with family and friends during the holidays; gadgets we’d bring for a long, power-limited day trip like attending a Supreme Court rally; seeking or avoiding Black Friday tech deals; and the apps we use for recipe discovery and management. Go to the podcast page.

Mick Perrin Worldwide have announced that the Kiwi Icon, Rhys Darby, is returning to the stage with a brand new stand-up show, The Legend Returns. Kicking off in May 2025 and heading across the UK and Ireland, tickets are available via pre-sale on 18th November with general on sale taking place on 19th November from www.mickperrin.com/tours/rhys-darby-the-legend-returns/. After almost a decade, Darby is back on tour with his classic mix of …

Perry Anderson brings a peculiar gift to the work of criticism: he can step into a book and inspect it closely, even sympathetically, scrutinising its structures, immersing himself in its style and atmosphere; then he can step out of it again and size it up coldly from a distance. It’s surprising how rare this is. Historians rarely attempt it.