Here's this week's devilishly fiendish Round Blogworld Quiz question (see the previous ones and their solutions here). 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 all. If you get the ... Read More...
Month: July 2011
This month's Dabbler Book Club selection was Rupert Thomson's This Party's Got To Stop. Tomorrow we have an exclusive Q&A with the author, but today Dabbler editors Gaw and Brit provide their reviews... Gaw One of the good things about book clubs is that you read and end up enjoying books you ... Read More...
Jason Webster is the author of five books on Spain, including Duende, which has been translated into a dozen languages. Or the Bull Kills You is the first in a series of detective novels involving Chief Inspector Max Cámara of the Spanish National Police. The second novel, Some Other Body ... Read More...
Every month we award a bottle of Glengoyne 10 year old single malt - the finest whisky available to humanity - to a commenter... There were two outstanding candidates for our Comment of the Month in June, both concerned with poetry. Jonathan Law's revolutionary but utterly convincing theory about why all English ... Read More...
Back in November 2010, The Dabbler stumbled across this rather extraordinary and wonderful project - a family tree tracing British pub names and signs. The pub genealogist himself - graphic designer Jonathan Chadwick - kindly supplied us with an up-to-date version of the Pub Tree (click the image for the ... Read More...
Born a century ago in the impoverished southern states of America, Jazz has come to represent the natural voice of the black african and mixed races of that great nation, but because they had no exposure to it, nor any knowledge of it, there are very few black musicians who ... Read More...
At Henley Royal Regatta yesterday, I found myself observing the Skullionesque policing of spectators. Guardians of the Stewards' Enclosure ensure that the Regatta’s rules and regulations are strictly adhered to. Especially the dress code: In accordance with long established tradition, gentlemen ‘are required to wear lounge suits, or jackets or ... Read More...
At the Frank Key Academy Of Terpsichorean Élan we are pleased to announce that students can now enrol for a course of almost affordable lessons in an exciting new dance choreographed especially for Dabbler readers. It is, of course, called The Dabble. Here is an exclusive extract from the instruction ... Read More...
