In our house, that is known as “Father Tedding” something.

I’ve liked the previous Smile albums better than most things post Kid A (In Rainbows excepted). Will check it out.

I think he is a great writer. I prefer listening to Ellen but far prefer reading Hepworth. Of course, for the full Word in Your Ear experience they should just print some Mark Ellen text straight over the top of […]

The thing with eccentrics, certainly in the US, is that they look very different to local stones., so it may have attracted attention. Does it look different to the other ones? I’m trying to apply Occam’s Razor here.

Haven’t read the article, but could it not have been a glacial deposit and then found locally by the henge builders? I believe these sort of out-of-place rocks are called ‘erratics’.

A couple of days ago I was in Winton towards the western edge of Queensland at my Father-In-Law’s funeral. It was like a waking dream being suddenly lifted from the lush sensory overload of the sub-tropics out to […]

Hi Junior. There are lots of small USB-powered desk fans available very cheaply. Have a look in JB HiFi or Officeworks.

When MC Escher tells me he has “a little perspective” for me, can I have been the only one expecting something else?

Wishlisted. Thanks.

Who would have thought.

Literally within the first two chapters of the new book I started, the senior detective was described as speaking in ‘management speak’. It unfortunately seems very plausible to me that incompetent people cli […]

I tried a few of those and fled in terror. When the author is 32 and onto their 26th book, it’s a good sign that quality may be questionable.

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I started The Dentist last night, just after I had watched a few episodes of The Onion’s autistic journalist, Micheal Falk. It has somewhat spoiled the main character for me.

I’m sure I’ve written about it on here before, but this is roughly what I did: Diet: Stopped eating bread, pasta and rice. Use bagged salad or zoodles (zucchini noodles) instead and pile whatever I would have […]

And where the culprit was a complete unknown who only came to attention six months later when he dumped his alibi-providing girlfriend.

Clever!

I’m fascinated by representations of accents in different languages. I’d love to hear a Swedish version of Australian (in Swedish, of course!). I once spent a frustrating half hour explaining this concept to a […]

A tangential addendum: Trying to maintain an element of surprise over the length of a novel is a hard ask for any detective author, which is why I think the short story is the preferred form. One of the biggest […]