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- KEITH TOLSTOY
- At the age of fifty, it seemed I had no personality left for writing a blog with. But hey, I thought - I can still embed videos and do hotlinks…
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- The first trainspotter
- Ask The Dunces
- Farewell, Miles Kington
- Twittering
- Wicca meets Vicar
- Flash bang
- Mixed metaphors of the month
- Freewheeling in the twilight
- Gordon's worst nightmare
- Embattled authors
- Strawberry Hill Forever
- Christopher Hitchens on Hillary Clinton
- Holst was wrong
- Tea with the Taliban
- Bush's favourite painting
- "If you existed, I'd divorce you"
- Wraparound
- La belle et le bête
- Pathological individualism
- Bette Davis, pop star?
- Making muscle obsolete
- Wake-up call
- Lion hug
- A Scottish firebrand
- Sick at heart
- Bravo, ancient voyeur
- Restrain yourself, Rhett
- Murky waters
- In happier times
- Jimmy Shand meets gangsta rap
- All modem and no trousers?
- Eighteen years after Footloose
- Put it away
- British public "not fit for purpose"
- Last farewell
- Two worlds collide
- Elder Statesmen
- Dear Posterity…
- Seven today
- Foodscapes
- Seven minutes of melancholy happiness
- Watch with Nanny
- Henry's footsteps
- Mental illness as spectator sport
- Spilled Water EMERGENCY!
- Jailhouse Rock
- RIP George MacDonald Fraser
- Centenarian twins
- That Thing They Do
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What three otherwise sensible people have said about Webside Gleanings
It is a treasurehouse of the bizarre and the offbeat, and it could quite easily eat up 30-60 minutes of your day every day unless you approach it with caution. So - be cautious, be self-disciplined, but do go and have a look. It's a gem.
Froog
A charming compendium of the amusing, irritating and obscene, often in the same link. Its cross-eyed editor is an unsung genius who provides a happy meeting place on the net for the disillusioned, the slightly sociopathic, and people with a laptop who have a long time to wait for their train. A familiarity with the more arcane reaches of Church history may help the reader with the less obvious jokes.
It's like wandering into an emporium with lots of choice trinkets and ornaments that you never knew existed and would look just lovely on the mantelpiece.
Richard Donkin
Froog
A charming compendium of the amusing, irritating and obscene, often in the same link. Its cross-eyed editor is an unsung genius who provides a happy meeting place on the net for the disillusioned, the slightly sociopathic, and people with a laptop who have a long time to wait for their train. A familiarity with the more arcane reaches of Church history may help the reader with the less obvious jokes.
It's like wandering into an emporium with lots of choice trinkets and ornaments that you never knew existed and would look just lovely on the mantelpiece.
Richard Donkin
WEBSIDE PULPIT
Not only is it difficult to know the truth about anything, but to tell the truth when one knows it, to find words that will not obscure or pervert it, is in my experience an exhausting effort.
A E Housman
Previously on Webside Pulpit
A E Housman
Previously on Webside Pulpit
AESTHETIC HINT
Webside Gleanings should look its best with "Text Size" in your View menu set at "Larger".
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