The conservationist ideology is full of contradictions, according to a new book. Elberry, who anyway would be "happier in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, daubing himself with blue woad and hunting his enemies with a stone club", reviews it... I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It ... Read More...
Month: August 2012
As conjunctivitis and a bewildering array of other eye diseases plague Dabbler Towers, Mr Slang considers the peepers... The five senses do not bulk overlarge in slang. Poets like them and prate accordingly; slang, being of a harder edge, prefers less subtlety. Compared to the vast lists pertaining to matters sexual, ... Read More...
The Dabbler is pleased to welcome superblogger Rob Baker on board for a series of guest posts taken from his excellent Nickel in the Machine. In his day job Rob is a TV producer, but is concentrating more and more on writing, having recently launched The London Project in an ... Read More...
As will have been obvious from recent diaries I was very much on the pro side of the Dabbler divide re the Olympics, but even I cannot defend everything about London 2012. On Thursday I mooched idly into the official Olympic souvenir shop at Paddington station, thinking it would be ... Read More...
Some League of Dabblers members yesterday. Little may you realise that beneath this wonderfully sleek and efficient shell, The Dabbler is manned by a rag tag group of desperadoes, frantically pulling levers and bits of string. We couldn’t kidnap and then ruthlessly exploit these people to their full potential without the ... Read More...
Another chance to enjoy this smooth and spreadable Lazy Sunday post, smothered thickly on toast by Martpol... In recent years there has been a proliferation of products that you didn’t know your body needed (or more specifically, that women didn’t know their bodies needed). Barely a week goes by without the discovery ... Read More...
Are Prince Harry’s recent antics in Las Vegas part of an elaborate PR stunt? After all, we’re in the middle of the Olympics, and games are still very much on our minds - especially after the excitement of the beach volleyball. And Prince Harry is a well-heeled young man, for ... Read More...
With Gaw still on holiday in France, today's diary comes from Toby Ash... and is about his holiday in France... The holiday kicked off with a splendid buffet dinner on the overnight ferry from Plymouth to Roscoff. Needless to say the boat had a French crew. There was a wonderful selection ... Read More...
Jonathan Meades - who gave an exclusive interview to The Dabbler earlier this year - has a new book out via Unbound - here, Jonathan Green reviews it... The gathering together of US farming families for the purpose of rolling newly cut logs, so heavy that a single family could not ... Read More...
Do American and English parents do everything the opposite way round? Rita investigates... I usually side with linguistic purists who consider "verbing" a sign of the collapse of civilization. But in the case of the word "parenting" it is surely appropriate, for Parenting is now a competitive sport of Olympic proportions. ... Read More...