Urban Legends Reference Pages: Sports (Winning Tradition) Since 1936, if the Redskins won their last home game prior to the election, the incumbent was re-elected. They just lost their last home game. Go Kerry!

WooooOOOoooo Alton Towers Photos from Hallowe’en and Alton Towers (Richard’s Comments are well worth reading.) I’m the one in the pinstripes and skull mask.

Anyway, another book. I’ve foisted on you all the works of Italo Calvino (this I know, as I have very few of his books left on my shelves) but I fear I’ve burnt myself out to appreciating him. This month I’ve read The Baron in the Trees (about a nobleman’s son who after a quarrel…

Meanwhile, on the book front, I’ve just finished Alan Garner’s Thurlsbitch (he’s the author of The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, if you’re wondering). Set in the Peak District (where my folks live, where we’ve always walked and where I’m going tomorrow), Thurlsbitch is the name of an ancient dale, where two hundred years ago people lived,…

People keep criticising me for not putting my personal thoughts up here more regularly. I thought I was; then I looked at the dates of personal posts and realised how much of my life I’m losing to a pretty-much unconscious existence, with intermittent periods of awareness. I wonder if everyone’s lives are like that? So…