The Perfect Honeymoon Location

Congratulations to the royal couple. Amidst rumours of a budget stay in the Scilly Isles, I thought I'd take a closer look at the custom of the post-wedding holiday, and considerations of location... A honeymoon describes the time just after the wedding, when things are at their sweetest – a phase ... Read More...

The Regal Woading

It's the Big Day! Here is Frank Key with the centrepiece of The Dabbler's Big Royal Wedding Jamboree... By rights, several dimblebys should be on hand to guide you through the events of today’s regal woading, but they have been ripp’d untimely from their anchorage, so I am stepping into the ... Read More...

Royal Wedding Tack

Roll up! Roll up! A royal wedding just wouldn't be a royal wedding without an avalanche of tat for simpletons to stockpile, so with great fanfare we present The Dabbler's guide to the most dispensible wedding mementos out there... First up, we have Royal Wedding Top Trumps -which might bring a ... Read More...

The Dabbler’s Round Blogworld Quiz #19

Here's this week's devilishly fiendish Round Blogworld Quiz question (see the previous ones and their solutions here) is supplied by quiz-whizz Adelephant. As usual, find the link between these cryptic clues. A point for each item you get, and an imaginary cream bun of regal proportions if you get them ... Read More...

Why do newspapers hate wine?

Introducing The Dabbler's new wine correspondent... My name is Henry Jeffreys and I’m a wine bore. Few of my friends share my interest so I started a blog as an outlet for all the useless knowledge I was accumulating. I don’t drink good wine to show off and I don’t only ... Read More...

LBJ: A Reassessment

Britain's butterfly and (especially) bird life is rich and various, but, for all its beauties, those who take an interest in such things have to acknowledge an underlying tendency towards inconspicuous brownness. Large numbers of species - especially of birds - are pretty small and nondescript and come in unsassuming ... Read More...

Edith Sitwell and the English Eccentrics

Our friends at Slightly Foxed (the real readers' quarterly - buy a subscription now!) have once again kindly allowed The Dabbler to dip into its rich archives. We have handpicked this gem for you -- originally entitled A Splendid Attitude to Death -- from the Spring 2010 edition, in which ... Read More...