Secret Panda Carwash

Mr David Gaillard and Ms Kerry Corcoran Gaillard were backcountry skiing in Montana with their dog Oly when disaster struck. An avalanche bu...

The BBC reports that penguins have been defecating on people queuing to see the pandas in Edinburgh Zoo. It appears that the penguins are no...

I went to see Richard Thompson playing solo in Vicar Street, along with a load of others who were mostly older than me. Result. The support ...

What is Afrocubism? Why, it is collaboration between musicians from Cuba and Mali. Maybe it should just have been called Malicubism, but tha...

I have been thinking about what were my favourite new to me records of 2011. And the following are the ones I came up with. A fuller write-u...

In which we make the acquaintance of Claire Maguire and Lexa Hackett. They're new characters, so you don't need to know anything abo...

Changmao and Chunzi live in Yunnan Wild Animal Park. They appear to love each other. However, they are not of the same species – Changmao is...

Pandas Mei Xiang and Tian Tian have acquired a new hobby – thanks to the enrichment programme in their Washington DC zoo, they have become a...

More NaNoWriMo action, in which Barry Ryan is given an assignment. Ryan made his way down the corridor to the Chief's office and knocke...

What is this? Why it is chapter 1 of the novel I wrote for NaNoWriMo 2011. I am going to post a chapter of it a day for the next while, wit...