Knitting on the Green

I should probably be saying something about Christmas and how lovely it was. It was. But this has it all. Neil Gaiman, "Firefly...

Well, all that NaBloPoMo stuff went out of the window last week, what with the Inauguration brouhaha, and being completely knackered, and al...

... why Mr Gaiman has always seemed so eerily familiar . ETA: The second "conversation" in the comments bears reading... I can alm...

As a taxonomer (and intermittent tagger of blogs), I'm a natural enemy of "miscellaneous". But some random things ... First, t...

Went to see the very splendid Neil Gaiman read at the LSE last night - my photos of the event are all a bit rubbish, but this was the best o...

Neil Gaiman is reading his new book, The Graveyard Book , online via a series of videos; he's currently travelling the US reading one ch...

I wasn't going to do a retrospective on 2007, although there were some very good things in there - or a 'new year's resolution...

Well, I did the first week, I survived and I enjoyed it. Even the commute, mostly. The fifteen minutes on the Victoria Line in the morning, ...