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Light brown soft suede with a wedge sole. A little threadbare, but comfortable, with some rather dubious stains that I would rather not go into.

Saw the rainbow in the heaven, In the eastern sky the rainbow, Whispered, "What is that, Nokomis?" And the good Nokomis answered: "'Tis the heaven of flowers you see there; All the wild-flowers of the forest, All the lilies of the prairie, When on earth they fade and perish, Blossom in...

Anthony Burgess famously invented a whole new language for his novel "A Clockwork orange". This language, which he called "Nadsat", was a hybrid of English, Russian, German and other slang words. You can find a Nadsat dictionary at http://soomka.com/nadsat.html

:cool: <---- Bob Dylan is always good for a song title or two; "It Takes a Lot To Laugh, It Takes a Train To Cry", "Talking Bear Mountain Picnic Massacres", Subterranean Homesick Blues", "Rainy Day Women #12 and 35" etc, and I like the way The Sex Pistols get straight to the point with the title...

Can't stop thinking about that! A newspaper article! They don't write newspaper articles like that anymore, certainly not ones about the weather, anyway! It reminds me of another quote, from L.P. Smith: "But why wasn't I born, alas, in an age of Adjectives; why can one no longer write of...

Found this quote from Mark Twain - I think it's from an article he wrote for The New Times (?): "If we hadn't our bewitching autumn foliage, we should still have to credit the weather with one feature which compensates for all its bullying vagaries-the ice-storm: when a leafless tree is...

Books I read often include "Nausea" (Jean-Paul Sartre), "On the Road" (Jack Kerouac), "A Tale of Two Cities" (Dickens) and "Cannery Row" (John Steinbeck). And I'm currently reading "Thomas the Tank Engine and the Squeak" about three times a day.

"If you do not agree with the phases of the moon, get a ladder and repair it".

Ben Okri is a wonderful African writer; I especially like the trilogy of books which tell the story of Azaro, a spirit child - "The Famished Road", "Songs of Enchantment" and "Infinite Riches". Magical.

I had thought about posting this in a "best opening lines"-type thread, but this one seems more apt: "The call came late one afternoon. I remember it because I had just been trying to invent a new biscuit. Ever try that? Ever wonder why there isn't a wider variety of biscuits available? Just...

:confused: Prospect magazine have just issued a list of Britain's top 100 intellectuals. I won't post it here but you can see it for yourself at http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/HtmlPages/intellectuals.asp. What struck me about the list was that it contains the names of only 12 women. Do you...

If it's espionage/terrorism you want try Gerald Seymour.

and these: http://www.cookitsimply.com/fruit/gooseberry-recipes/ and some of these sound tasty: http://fooddownunder.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?q=gooseberry (I feel quite ill........)

It seems you can make all these things, too :) http://www.bbc.co.uk/apps/ifl/food/showrecord?templatestyle=text&config=ingredientname&page=1&pagesize=15&Id=84

Make a nice crumble if memory serves. And I believe you can make a fool out them, but don't ask me how. :)

:( Sorry Halo, In my seriously humble opinion, it sounds to me like the car has to go. £500 of repairs on a '91 metro? It's probably only worth half that given the amount of welding it clearly needs - it must be falling to pieces, or will be soon. And what's wrong with your gearbox? May last...

I thought it looked more like a bat. ;)

I like "The Bet" by Anton Chekhov; no spoilers, but anyone who likes books (and I know you all do) will probably find it interesting.

"Your head is your house, furnish it."