The Dabbler ventures into the exciting world of travel blogging in the company of Anne Ward, the mastermind behind the remarkable Nothing to See Here blog and now the author of a Nothing to See Here book, subtitled A Guide to the Hidden Joys of Scotland. (Incidentally, it's published by Pocket Mountains where you ... Read More...
Britain
With the United Kingdom under threat from Mr Salmond and his bravehearts, in this week's music feature Brit searches for the essence of its four constituent members... The Scottish National Party has been mugged by power and, as Daniel Kalder so brilliantly explained, the northern Britons are faced with the frightening ... Read More...
Nige debunks the English myth of the wild wood... I am, as readers of my blog will have noticed, a lover of woodland - but I really couldn't see what last year's fuss about the proposed sale of Forestry Commission land was all about [Caroline Lucas, the Green MP, called it "an unforgivable act of ... Read More...
Inspired by Rita's 'letter from America' column, but not willing to come and live in England, David Cohen provides a US perspective of the English - a sort of 'Dispatches (not quite) from the Former Old World' - beginning with a look at our geography... For a while this winter, my ... Read More...
Brit visits a new 'craft beer bar' slap-bang in the middle of Bristol's Studentsville, and wonders if, despite everything, the world has become a better, more civilised place... You may not credit it, but I have not always been the suave, immaculately-attired, dashingly handsome Brit familiar to millions of Dabbler readers. Once I was ... Read More...
Mid-January and we’re no doubt approaching what some discredited mathematical formula or other decrees is the ‘most depressing day of the year’. Certainly we’re all broke, tired, a year closer to death, facing another existential crisis. It’s perfect British beach weather… Previously on my extensive Dabbler Country tour of Britain’s seaside resorts I ... Read More...
Gwyn Headley, the foremost authority on English follies and co-author of the magnificent new ebook series Follies of England, looks at one of Britains most horrible listed buildings... “Folly!” cry the locals. “Masterpiece!” cry the conservation societies. “Sod off!” cry the vandals. The Apollo Pavilion in Peterlee, County Durham, has today ... Read More...
Nige explores a county where "history is written on the face of the land"... Tell someone you're going walking in Leicestershire and chances are you'll be greeted by a blank bewildered look, or the bald question 'Why?' In fact, Leicestershire has some of the best walking country in England - wide open ... Read More...
Gwyn Headley, the foremost authority on English follies and co-author of the magnificent new ebook series Follies of England, takes us into a strange subterranean world... Imagine you are standing beside a tall wall. It encloses a kitchen garden, eight acres of kitchen garden, the sort of self -sufficiency that would ... Read More...
Following Jon Hotten's review of Hood Rat - Gavin Knight's new survey of Britain's gang culture - Elberry takes on the underclass... One of the great pleasures of living in Germany is not living in England. In Germany disaffected youths scrawl pointless graffiti and dress in bright primary colours; in England, they take ... Read More...
