Most of you got most of the answers right in Sunday's quiz, which may reflect my lack of imagination in inventing alternatives. I was sorry that nobody was atrracted by the option of someone "on the broo" being a bar-tender. Perhaps too good to be true.

Anyway, in order of decreasing difficulty, the answers were:

bake = mouth, as in the oft-heard ( Read more... )

Having reached London too late to get to last night's BSFA meeting, I persuaded djm4 - who I had not seen in over two decades - to try Georgian food. There are in fact several Georgian restaurants in London, but the handiest by far, which also seemed to have a decent write-up in Time Out, was Iberia at 294 Caledonian Road, just north of King's Cross. ( Read more... )

I had missed this, but am grateful to @dicknieuwenhuis on Twitter for flagging up a piece by Conor Brennan on the Business New Europe blog (which I had not previously heard of) quoting the Leveson report. The relevant paragraphs, in full:
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Took me much longer than usual to grind through this book, a tale of the Second Doctor, Jamie and Zoe on a frontier planet where various factions are in conflict with each other, and really little of much interest happens. There is a brief framing narrative with Ace and the Seventh Doctor, who intervenes at a crucial point to help his former self. ( Read more... )

Not that I am actively looking for another job myself, but I found this very short book on job-hunting rather lucid, and perhaps particularly helpful for people who need advice on just getting a job rather than finding a career (for the latter, nothing beats Richard Nelson Bolles' What Color is Your Parachute). While as promised in the title it ( Read more... )

Two stories here both told in the first person by companions of the Eleventh Doctor, and neither of them available in dead tree format.

The Sleepers in the Dust, by Darren Jones

This is an audiobook narrated by Arthur Darvill in the first person as Rory Williams. It has a lot of good things going for it, including two differently interesting types of ( Read more... )