Rant of the day

LA ALPUJARRA La Alpujarra is the name given to the southern slopes of the Sierra Nevada mountains in Spain. With the highest peak (Mulhacen)...

LEAVING HOME My elder son, who is 20, is leaving home. He is moving to Copenhagen, and starting at the Business School there in August. Toda...

DANDELIONS I hate dandelions. This is not a love-hate relationship combined with a bit of mutual respect, a la mole, this is a pure, unadult...

BLOGOSSARY One of the interesting side-effects of blogging has been the exposure to new (and newly invented) vocabulary. Like the word blog ...

WEST JUTLAND I have spent the last couple of days at my wife's family's annual gathering (again no internet connection, hence no blo...

TOUR DE FRANCE (2) In my blog on the Giro d'Italia (30/5/10), I said that this year's Tour would be a straight fight between Andy Sc...

TOWEL RACKS 99,9% of all towels are rectangular. As are 99,9% of all towel racks. Indeed, most of them have bars built into them at interval...