I thank the lord that I have yet to encounter the mythical Magic Roundabout of Swindon, the star of today's Wikiworm, my weekly trawl through the more unusual articles to be found on Wikipedia. Have any Dabblers had the misfortune to have tackled this monstrosity? The Magic Roundabout in Swindon, England was ... Read More...
Month: October 2013
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This week, a thriller! Or perhaps a crime caper!... Ratatatat! Ratatatat! Prohibition-era machine gun fire pursued Blodgett as he fled down an alleyway. He was panting, dripping with sweat, and made an easy target, decked out as he was in the colourful raiment of a Bolivian mountain goatherd. But the cops ... Read More...
What's in a name? Introducing Denkof Zwemmen, who knows a thing or two about pseudonyms... Back in 1963, when I was a smart-ass 24-year-old and had just moved from New York City into a farmhouse near my hometown of Poughkeepsie, and the phone company asked me in what name I wanted ... Read More...
Today we're delighted to welcome top foodie blogger Jassy Davis back to The Dabbler. Here she makes a breakfast that's not for the easily flustered... A favourite pastime when I was growing up was driving around the new estates erupting like boils along the A3 and touring the show homes. Boxy ... Read More...
Regular readers of The Dabbler will remember Gareth Rees of The Marshman Chronicles. Today Gareth returns as "Newly published author, Gareth E. Rees" to reveal how he put an end to 20 years of writing awful, half-arsed, unfinished novels. I’ve just turned 40. My first book, Marshland, comes out at the ... Read More...
I set my lip on fire the other morning. No of course I didn’t, I’m plagiarising Derek because I can’t think of a better diary opening than his, and because I haven’t done anything very exciting since my last missive, though I did attend a corporate awards night at the ... Read More...
This week Stephen brings you some poetry for autumn... Because October is my favourite month and because this is my favourite season, today I pursue an autumnal theme. Here is a poem by Elizabeth Jennings from one of her early collections. (Collections which are well worth returning to.) Song at the Beginning ... Read More...
I very much like the fact that the alien airport featured in today's unusual wikipedia article was named by the local council. Opened in 1963, Greater Green River Intergalactic Spaceport is located about four nautical miles (7.4 km) south of the central business district of Green River, Wyoming on a mountain known ... Read More...
Frank celebrates one of the finest children's stories ever written... Fossicking in a cupboard the other day, I came upon a set of a dozen issues of Puffin Post from the late 1960s. This was the quarterly magazine of the Puffin Club, an association for bookish tinies run by Puffin Books ... Read More...
