Every month we award a bottle of Glengoyne 10 year old single malt - the finest whisky available to humanity - to a commenter who tickles our fancy... Blog commenters are quite a rare species, making up a small proportion of a blog's readers. My guess is that we're talking a small single ... Read More...
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Dabbler Book Club member Shona give us her views on those of Clive (previous features on Mr James' latest book can be found here and here). A Point of View is just that. For those of us who remember Clive James' ten minute talks on BBC Radio Four, it is a welcome ... Read More...
Stop the year! We've just received a last minute entry for our Images of 2011 feature. Rosie Bell: There was so much news this year. You had barely digested one item when another meaty one was put down in front of you. Here’s a picture that for convenience combines two news ... Read More...
We've invited Dabblers to contribute their image of the year. Today, in our second installment, we hear from Brit, Noseybonk, Mahlerman, Jassy Davis and Daniel Kalder. Brit: I've picked this image of Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden and others watching news from Pakistan of the mission that would kill Osama Bin ... Read More...
We've invited Dabblers to contribute their image of the year. Today we hear from Gaw, Mark Pack and Susan. Gaw: My picture of the year (top) is in memoriam: the cover shot from Christopher Hitchens' recent memoir. A grave-dancer left a comment on the New Yorker's remembrance accusing Hitchens of being full of himself. ... Read More...
Today we present a Dabbler Christmas extravaganza. Later Susan takes us on a 3D Christmas Eve adventure, but first we invited Dabblers to contribute an image of Christmas and here are those of Nige, Skipper, Philip Wilkinson and ZMKC. Nige: Let us define our terms. As the scrupulous Nigel insisted in ... Read More...
The shops are full of rubbish and anyway you already own everything, so nobody knows what to buy you for Christmas. Here's the solution. Get them to buy you a subscription to the League of Dabblers. It's a mere £30, but the rewards are priceless and infinite... For the trifling sum ... Read More...
Every month we award a bottle of Glengoyne 10 year old single malt - the finest whisky available to humanity - to a commenter who tickles our fancy... Of course, amazing things happen in The Dabbler's Comments section every day. But last month saw it providing for the first time a valuable primary ... Read More...
Announcing the winners of this month's Dabbler Book Club choice... Earlier on The Dabbler, Nige thought it was "thought-provoking, serious and witty". A little later, David Waywell reckoned it "contains erudition, thought, doubt, contradiction, cynicism, and even melancholy". It's not as if we haven't set out to whet your appetite is it? It's ... Read More...
Last week Brit the Elder supplied a fiendish riddle for your puzzlement - somewhat too infuriatingly fiendish if the messages in the editorial inbox are anything to go by. Here's the solution... 19281 ... Read More...
