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...
Month: April 2011
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...
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...
Jonathon Green kicks off The Dabbler's Big Royal Wedding Jamboree, sponsored by 1649 Bradshaw... The last time this happened I spent the morning at Wormwood Scrubs. My friend had had two tons of grass in a garden shed. Coppers in camo and blackface materialised in his vegetable patch at 0400 hours. Yes, that ... Read More...
Looks like Ian and Jonathan have it this week. Thanks to Adelephant for the fiendish question. Click continue if you give up. 12389 ... Read More...
It’s been kept very hush-hush by the media so you may not have noticed, but there’s a Royal Wedding happening on Friday. The Dabbler, being the UK’s leading cultural blog, will of course be covering the occasion in depth and at length. Coming up we have: Jonathon Green’s (eye-watering) Dictionary of Nuptial Slang Worm’s ... Read More...
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...
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...
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...
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...