Our recent celebration of Modness reminded us where we found the title of this feature. Here's a chance to read the first ever Lazy Sunday Afternoon - and to note how much better it is nowadays! Lazy Sunday Afternoon is going to be a weekly feature here at The Dabbler: a ... Read More...
Worth Repeating
During August we give a few Dabbler classics some airplay. A scene from Gregory's Girl appeared in one of the Olympic opening ceremony montages so we thought it might be topical to spin this Retroprogressive post from August 2010... Post recession shoppers do not wish to appear ostentatious, so luxury designer ... Read More...
The traditional Dabbler summer break is upon us. It's one-a-day until September, and the chance to catch up with some terrific, even historic, posts from The Dabbler Archives. Today, here's one from a multi-talented friend of The Dabbler... As well as being the theatre critic for the Evening Standard and an ... Read More...
Toby Ash, The Dabbler’s Most South-Westerly Tip of England Correspondent, discovers the local origins of an iconic drinks brand whilst walking the back streets of Penzance. A few months ago, as I walked through the maze of back alleys in east Penzance, I stumbled across a locked wooden gate, behind which ... Read More...
Stephen Clarke is the author of A Year in the Merde and numerous other books which take an irreverent look at the French and at Anglo-Gallic relations. In this exclusive post for The Dabbler, originally published in February 2011, he explains why Les Rosbifs have been irritating their continental neighbours ... Read More...
Brit considers a hit song of utterly bleak existential numbness... Peggy Lee’s Is That All There Is? must be one of the strangest hit records ever made. Dan Daniels, Guy Lombardo and Tony Bennett all released versions of it, but none managed to match the success of Lee’s recording, which features orchestral ... Read More...
If you're back at the office and feeling a little rough after the long Jubilee weekend, take consolation from the Dabbler archives, as editor Gaw recalls a strange night of vodka-fuelled Russian hospitality... A Russian doctor takes the connoisseur's approach to combining vodka and food: Russian men drink vodka shots. They drink vodka with gusto while making ... Read More...
One from the Dabbler archives this Bank Holiday Monday - Ian Vince's account of one of the oddest twitchers you'd ever be likely to meet.... It had been a long walk through the Shropshire hills in search of fossils and, with a good morning’s work completed and a bag full of ... Read More...
From the archives, here's Worm's review of a beautiful, unusual book... Typographer and book designer Judith Schalansky grew up behind the Iron Curtain in 1980's East Germany. Unable to travel beyond the borders of her own insular country, she spent her childhood poring over maps of unobtainably far off places, "travelling through ... Read More...
From the Dabbler archives, Rosie Bell's excellent tribute to John Gross. The post is also notable for concluding with some remarkable lit-crit twaddle from one Dr Dylan Trigg, subsequent star of a Noseybonk episode... I was sorry to hear of the death of John Gross. His Rise and Fall of the ... Read More...
