The last 48 hours have been quite surreal and stressful (had a bad house fire on Sunday night - you can read all about it in yesterday’s post), but there have been some funny moments in among the...

While I normally try to find connections when I post images here, sometimes it's fun to go with four random, completely-unconnected-in-any-way-at-all photos too -- and this is one of those...

Warning - this post doesn’t go in quite the amusing direction that it seems to be going in at the start…

I was watching a creepy episode of Inside Number 9 last night. Strange things were...

Books That Burn is a podcast about books (mais oui!) which also posts reviews in a section of their site helpfully entitled REVIEWS THAT BURN. It's a really good site, averaging between 15 and 20...

At the start of the summer holidays, the Shans decamped to London for a couple of weeks, and on a couple of days we visited Chessington World Of Adventures, and stayed in a campsite on the premises...

Gannen Harst was a key cast member in my Saga Of Darren Shan / Cirque Du Freak series, even though I didn't introduce him until well into the second half of the storyline. He clearly made a big...