Blog can expand to backlog

It occurred to me today that I will have to write a setter’s blog for the recent Enigmatic Variations puzzle Uncom...

Better late than never…

Being on holiday seems to result in less time to do things, so this is a day late.  I have found myself working thr...

A Christmas extra

Merry Christmas folks.  Here are Phi and Sabre plotting a puzzle over a Christmas Eve beer.    

No cards this year

I have got quite out of the habit of sending Christmas cards, which makes it all the more unsettling when I receive one ...

The garden dries

Unusually we have a lawn turning brown.  This doesn’t often happen (indeed the parts nearer the foot of the h...

Never blog after dredging a stream

It comes hard.  The more-or-less annual clearance of vegetation from our stream occurred yesterday – warm, bu...

By a whisker…

Actually, Whskr is the other half’s monicker, though she’s doing most of her work under Dash Kitten at prese...

After the break…

Well, sorry about that.  We’ve been getting some decent weather and a fortnight ago the weekend was swallowed...

In memoriam

This week saw the passing of Michael Macdonald-Cooper, who was crossword editor of The Independent for a while, and with...

A repetitive weekend

When your ISP suddenly decides to stop their email service because they’re being inundated with spam, and recommen...