Judith, according to Claire, your email account is bouncing her messages!

So far, my friends seem to be as one in their disagreement with my rant about The Passion (and gay marriage). Wow.

It’s a certain person’s birthday today, but in the fortnight leading up to it everyone I know has been giving birth. Congratulations to Matthew and Jenny for Douglas, Nicholas and Hind on Adam and Patrick and Catherine for Joshua—the last two within 48 hours of each other this weekend. I have a feeling there will […]

I went to an excellent farewell do yesterday evening to say goodbye to J-FK before she flies off to run Australia. Our foursome took a corner of the huge table of guests at a Korean restaurant on the Holloway Road, just a stagger from Highbury and Islington Station. Airport has a lot of friends who […]

Does this get me off the hook, then?

I hadn’t heard from Alynzia for months (since her last comment on PooterGeek in fact) so I went looking for her online and found that her Website has disappeared. Let us know you’re still alive, Ms Newton! And do you have anything to do with TheAristotleEngine?

Yesterday ‘Blogging superstar Glenn Reynolds was reviewing girls’ boy-dolls on his Instapundit Weblog. His point was that a “Flava” doll called “Liam” is selling poorly because it’s too girly, but he is positive about the male Bratz—apparently his own daughter is a fan. (And I have to say that I think the music loops on […]

Oh, yes. Merry Christmas, one and all.

Adam has moved to adamwoolfe.net.

Go to bed!

Over to Bill and Judy’s yesterday evening for an excellent dinner and debate with the sabbaticalling professor and his wife, whom the immigration authorities would have chained in the kitchen rather than let her steal paid work from the British. Amongst other working activities, Bill has been known to wrestle with a program called Lutefisk. […]

This is an official ‘Blog hug for Leasey.

Auriol Miller and family garden party pics up over at LoveAndBentSpoons.

Congrats to fellow blogger Casual Savant who has submitted her dissertation and is now conspicuously inactive. Thanks for the postcard from Paris which finally arrived at work today—doncha love those productive Frenchies? Lovely handwriting as always. Here’s the obligatory Douglas Adams quote: "My favourite piece of information is that Branwell Bront,Ak(B, brother of Emily and […]

The jostling of the Google giants continues: Claire.Berlinski: 1150 Damian.Counsell: 974 Wait till my books come out, clever trousers. (Oh yes, here’s the obligatory Kirk link for those of you geeky enough to recognize the place where the Moby Dick quote was most famously re-deployed.)

After his appearance in PooterGeek this week, Allan Brigham—this the last time I will refer to you as “celebrity roadsweeper“, Allan, I promise—invited me on one of his tours of Cambridge for free. What a revelation! Sonya and I joined the throng outside the Guildhall yesterday evening and (after some shockingly un-English touchy-feely stuff so […]

I’m not sure whether this means Glenn Reynolds‘s stock is falling or Claire Berlinski‘s is rising, but, yesterday, his Weblog Instapundit actually reproduced Claire’s haiku on the death of her bonsai tree.

A twenty-something female work colleague began a non-ironic sentence like this: "I don’t want a perfect body or anything, but, you know Halle Berry?…" …before continuing on to covet in detail Ms. Berry’s defined deltoids—only her deltoids, I must admit. If I could focus on Halle’s deltoids alone long enough to see what my co-worker […]

Today I managed to double the time the AA reckons it takes to get from Cambridge to Marlborough. At least when I got there the warm, kind and generous Miller family and lots of friends were waiting for me. Pictures to follow.

Dr. Berlinski‘s book is now in Amazon’s top 300! In other news, the annoying woman has out-googled me: 656 entries for “Claire.Berlinski” over 608 entries for “Damian.Counsell“. (Lazy journalists don’t put the dot in the middle of firstname.surname pairs when they are counting hits-per-person, thereby inflating numbers.)

Dear Uncle Damian Despite being in a stable long-term relationship, I have become stigmatized as a result of my forthright personality and purely platonic extra-curricular associations with men other than my boyfriend. In short, all the girls hate me and they think I’m a slag. I don’t know why I’m writing to you either, since […]

How should someone from this side of the Atlantic communicate with basketball-playing brothers from New York? Mike and I received a tutorial in this fine art from hoop-crazy Leasy earlier today. Are these the kind of people she had in mind?

Congratulations to Fiona Hood (second from left in this picture), the woman who named this ‘Blog, on getting a First! Viv, Neil and I have already ordered the spicy potatoes for your next outing with the Mill Road Massive.

Little Lisa is good at accents. Mike, who’s from Ireland, remains non-plussed, however, by the way she frequently slips into Oirish when she encounters him. How apt, then, that when Mike was introduced to a new PhD student of oriental origin yesterday he should be the one to fill a lull in conversation by asking […]