Sitting watching the news this evening and Richard and I heard that tell-tale scrabbling noise from the chimney breast that tells you a bird has got stuck down there. Thankfully the gas supply to the fire in the living room has already been disconnected, so we didn’t have to wait for the man from corgi. [...]

Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays are always made that little bit brighter by xkcd.

It probably won’t come as a great surprise to discover that I’m an atheist, and am all in favour of atheists as a group standing against the bombardment of religiosity that surrounds us. However, I spy on the horizon a worrying shift within the, can we call it an “atheist movement”, that smacks of proselytising. [...]

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We decided to forgo a tree this year, and things were looking a little unfestive, until we started to put up the cards and unpack the lovely, shiny packages and stack them around the fire. What a haul eh!? Every year since I stopped being a teenager I’ve been convinced that the present-side of Christmas [...]