I watched No Distance Left to Run last night, a documentary about Blur. Strongly recommended for anyone with an interest in the band, I really liked it for many reasons. Apart from the flashbacks to my year in Leeds I get everytime I hear the opening bars of "Parklife", it was a good reminder of how much I like their music (must dig out those CDs) ( Read more... )

Read today in the newspaper a review of "Up and Down Stairs: The History of the Country House Servant" (by Jeremy Musson, if you want to read the whole thing yourself), which contains the following gem:
"For extra colour, Musson fillets John Russell's much-recycled Book of Nurture (c1460) for its reminders to servants about not picking your nose or ( Read more... )