Pigeon race. If you asked me which of the English royal family’s favorite sports, I would never say pigeon racing.…

It may seem obvious what I am going to say next, coming from a monothematic blog like this. But I…

There are films I always stop to watch, when I come across them on television.  It’s as if my brain…

If you’re an engineer or a meteorologist, you probably know the Chaos Theory. If you’re not, I’ll explain. The Chaos…

The other day, I was in the car driving the way I always do, like a bat out of hell…

Liver with fava beans and a good chianti, or a good Amarone, if you prefer the literary version to the…

Do you know what Feis Ile is? Feis ile is the biggest annual festival on the island of Islay, famous…

Manners make a man. This is what the British writer William Horman wrote in his book Vulgaria in 1519 –…

My daughter is studying Brazilian folklore at school. Yesterday, she came to tell me that her favourite folk character is…

Hiraeth. I couldn’t start this post any other way, but with ‘hiraeth’. The Welsh equivalent of our untranslatable Portuguese…