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Previously in Dogsticks...

11/09/2011:

28/08/2011:

A review of Collapse by Jared Diamond
Photos of Anglesey Abbey
Photos of Germany and Luxembourg

07/08/2011:

A review of The Body Electric by Robert O Becker

03/08/2011:

Given the impending collapse of industrial civilisation, I can't be bothered to submit poems for publication. Here are a few that I wrote several years ago that never saw the light of day - until now, you lucky surfer:

A Baby: about whether everything is downhill from the moment we're born
Californian Scenes: about my first trip to California. Written before I found out about Peak Oil, hence imbued with misplaced optimism
Cast your mind into Precambrian seas: about whether evolution was a waste of time
The Picture Above Ground: about the deceptive peacefulness of churchyards
The Stream: about musing pointlessly on the essence of the self

01/08/2011:

Photos:

24/07/2011:

Oxford.

10/07/2011:

Photos of the Cam and Boxted, Suffolk.

02/07/2011:

Recent photos:

13/06/2011:

More photos from Cambridge and Grantchester.

04/06/2011:

Photos from a paddle up the Cam.

02/06/2011:

Photos of poppies near the office, and Sussex.

31/05/2011:

Photos from Yorkshire.

28/05/2011:

Photos of Chichester.

05/05/2011:

Photos of sheep and Anglo-German entente.

29/04/2011:

Reviews of three stories by Tolstoy :

11/04/2011:

More photos from Long Preston.

21/03/2011:

More pylons.
Updates to the Pop CD catalogue, though the page is so long now you'll have a hard time spotting 'em.

12/03/2011:

A review of Whoops! by John Lanchester.
Book reviews now have clickable star ratings.
Photos of Pampisford in Cambridgeshire.
Photos of pylons.

05/03/2011:

A review of Daniel Deronda by George Eliot .
A review of Le Rêve de D'Alembert by Denis Diderot.
Photos of Cambridge.
A blog entry on the types of people who believe, and disbelieve, conspiracy theories.

12/02/2011:

A review of Small World by David Lodge
Photos of Long Preston

23/01/2011:

Photos from London.

16/01/2011:

A review of Nothing Natural by Jenny Diski.

10/01/2011:

A review of The Age of Absurdity by Michael Foley.

04/01/2011:

Ribblesdale.

02/01/2011:

Photos from the knobbly hills.

30/12/2010:

A review of Smile or Die by Barbara Ehrenreich.
Photos of:

27/12/2010:

A review of Straw Dogs by John Gray.
Photos of Christmas Day in Suffolk and Essex.

21/12/2010:

Wandlebury, Cambridgeshire.

20/12/2010:

Suffolk and Essex in the snish.

17/12/2010:

Another lunchtime wander on Magog Down, in the snow this time.

07/12/2010:

Photos of South Cambridgeshire in the frost.

21/11/2010:

Photos of Downham and Clitheroe in Lancashire.

06/11/2010:

Photos of:

Long Preston
Anglesey Abbey, where every autumn is slightly different, although not really very different
Beechwoods Nature Reserve near Cambridge
Cherry Hinton near Cambridge

26/10/2010:

Photos:

Plus:

Updates to the Pop CD catalogue
The Sisters of Mercy's Floodland added to the favourite pop CDs page

04/10/2010:

Photos of:

24/09/2010:

Photos of:

Lancaster, October 1988-March 1989
Lake District, February 1989
Wales, March-April 1989
Lichfield, April 1989
Dovedale, Derbyshire, April 1989
Lancaster, May 1989
The moon, September 2010

18/09/2010:

A review of The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein.
Photos of Chippenham Fen.

15/09/2010:

More old books finally reviewed:

John Ardagh: Germany and the Germans
John Humphrys: Devil's Advocate
Redmond O'Hanlon: Congo Journey
Redmond O'Hanlon: Into the Heart of Borneo

14/09/2010:

Some reviews added of books I read ages ago:

Richard P Feynman: The Character of Physical Law
Eric Hobsbawm: The Age of Revolution 1789-1848
W G Hoskins: The Making of the English Landscape
John Julius Norwich: Byzantium: The Early Centuries
Bertrand Russell: History of Western Philosophy

11/09/2010:

Photos of:

08/09/2010:

Old photos from:

05/09/2010:

A review of Deep Rivers by José María Arguedas added.

04/09/2010:

Yet more old photos:

And some new ones:

03/09/2010:

More old photos:

02/09/2010:

More old photos:

01/09/2010:

More old photos:

31/08/2010:

Some very old photos added:

28/08/2010:

Search terms are now highlighted in the full text of Book Reviews .

27/08/2010:

Language field added to Book Reviews search.

26/08/2010:

The photo timeline now shows each year's photos on a separate page.

24/08/2010:

Book reviews are now searchable.

20/08/2010:

Photo thumbnails added to the home page.

15/08/2010:

Photos of the Yorkshire Dales.

13/08/2010:

Photos of Lancashire, Yorkshire and Cleethorpes.

04/08/2010:

Photos of Flamingo Land, Pickering and Sutton Bank.

24/07/2010:

Some photos of Wharfedale.

28/06/2010:

Photos of:

Gargrave
Rose Castle, former palace of the Bishop of Carlisle

12/06/2010:

Photos of:

16/05/2010:

Photos of:

08/05/2010:

More evening photos of the Cork coast.

25/04/2010:

A review of QED by Richard P Feynman .
More photos of the Cork coast.

18/04/2010:

Photos from a walk in County Kerry.

11/04/2010:

Photos of:

05/04/2010:

Photos of Yorkshire and Manchester.

29/03/2010:

Finally, finally, I finish the second novel of Die Schlafwandler by Hermann Broch .

28/03/2010:

A shedload of photos from the Sheep's Head Peninsula.

20/03/2010:

Photos from a spin around the Beara Peninsula.

17/03/2010:

Photos of the West Cork coast.

14/03/2010:

Photos from this weekend.

28/02/2010:

Photos of Cobh.

27/02/2010:

Photos of Tipperary and environs.

22/02/2010:

Photos of:

30/01/2010:

Photos of:

23/01/2010:

Dogsticker page updated to reflect my current circumstances.
More photos added of Cork city.

17/01/2010:

Photos of Sandy Cove, County Cork, plus some more of Lough Mahon.

16/01/2010:

Photos of Lough Mahon, Cork.

15/01/2010:

Photos of:

04/01/2010:

More photos of North Yorkshire.

01/01/2010:

Recent photos (Yorkshire, Lancashire, Liverpool).

25/12/2009:

A whiteish Christmas.

23/12/2009:

How about that: there's still snow in Cambridgeshire.

18/12/2009:

Photos of:

12/12/2009:

A review of Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez .
Photos of Oundle in Northamptonshire.

07/12/2009:

A review of the first part of Die Schlafwandler by Hermann Broch .

25/11/2009:

Photos from a very brief visit to Cork, Ireland.

19/11/2009:

Photos of London at night.

15/11/2009:

First batch of old photos (Old Man of Coniston from 2003) scanned in from the negatives. Loads more to come...

31/10/2009:

A review of The Grand Chessboard by Zbigniew Brzezinski.
More photos of Yorkshire.
Photos of Anglesey Abbey.

26/10/2009:

Photos of Ribblesdale.

26/10/2009:

Photos of that classy lake Malham Tarn.

22/10/2009:

Photos of:

Lode
Skipton

12/10/2009:

A review of The Art of the Novel by Milan Kundera .
Autumnal shots of Reach Wood.

05/10/2009:

Photos of the moon.

04/10/2009:

A review added of Graham Famelo's biography of Paul Dirac .

01/10/2009:

Some photos from last week. Subjects: grass, dumped vehicles.

15/09/2009:

A review added of See No Evil by Robert Baer.

12/09/2009:

Photos of east Cambridgeshire and Blakeney Point.

07/09/2009:

Many years ago I tried to write a thesis on the Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard. Reviews of most of his novels , based on hazy memories of them, are now here.

02/09/2009:

A review of The New Rulers of the World by John Pilger.

31/08/2009:

Photos of the crumbling coast.

29/08/2009:

A review of Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update .
Photos of Wicken Fen.

26/08/2009:

Photos.
Several reviews of books added that I read aeons ago.

21/08/2009:

3 photos.
A review of Evelyn Waugh's Sword of Honour .

10/08/2009:

A quiet month so far for photos, but here are a few.

27/07/2009:

Photos from Yorkshire.

22/07/2009:

Photos of pylons.

15/07/2009:

That R S Thomas knew how to do it.

13/07/2009:

Book reviews are now database-driven. For you, the non-existent user who is ever in my mind, this means that you can open each review in its own page rather than scrolling through the whole lot, among other stuff that you couldn't care less about.

10/07/2009:

Photos of Devil's Dyke near Burwell.

06/07/2009:

A review of Nothing to be Frightened of by Julian Barnes.

04/07/2009:

Another spell of nice weather and unemployment, another trip to Norfolk.

01/07/2009:

More photos from Yorkshire.

26/06/2009:

A review of Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin.

25/06/2009:

Photos of:

/06/2009:

Some more Amazon lists added to the Music page.

13/06/2009:

A review of Ungeduld des Herzens by Stefan Zweig.

08/06/2009:

The layout of the page of my poetic efforts has been de-cluttered (at least that's the idea).

02/06/2009:

Another photo trip to the Norfolk coast.

25/05/2009:

Photos from:

Walks near Ely and Reach.
A spin up to Norfolk in the Eggmobile.

19/05/2009:

Photos of wet hills.
Gloomy ruminations on the BNP.

17/05/2009:

Photos of relatives, etc.
Armed Madhouse by Greg Palast added to the "Life's Too Short" Unfinished Book Reviews page.

04/05/2009:

More depressing geopolitics: a review of The New Cold War by Edward Lucas.

01/05/2009:

It's true what they say about those East Anglian skies.

29/04/2009:

Conspiracy ahoy: a review of The New Pearl Harbor by David Ray Griffin.

28/04/2009:

Photos:

21/04/2009:

A review of The Search by C P Snow.
And yet more photos of Yorkshire and Cambridgeshire.

17/04/2009:

More photos.
A couple of books added to the Books I Couldn't Finish page.

14/04/2009:

Easter Monday photos.

12/04/2009:

Easter Sunday photos.

08/04/2009:

I have nothing better to add today than more photos of Newmarket.

02/04/2009:

Recent photos.

20/03/2009:

More fenphotos.
A review of The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene.
Gillian Welch's Revival added to the list of favourite pop CDs.
Paul Simon's Essential Paul Simon added to it too.
Further updates to the Pop CD catalogue.

21/02/2009:

Photos of some obscure parts of Cambridgeshire.
A review of Night Thoughts of a Classical Physicist by Russell McCormmach.

11/02/2009:

Some updates to the Pop CD catalogue.

07/02/2009:

What happens when engineers frolic.

02/02/2009:

Snow in the Science Park.

25/01/2009:

A review of The Brain that Changes Itself by Norman Doidge.

08/01/2009:

Photos of snow.

07/01/2009:

A review of Doctor Copernicus by John Banville.

06/01/2009:

More photos - Yorkshire and Lancashire.

01/01/2009:

Photos of Yorkshire.

28/12/2008:

A review of a book about Superstrings .

22/12/2008:

A review added of The Time of the Hero by Mario Vargas Llosa.

07/12/2008:

Some photos of Devil's Dyke.

06/12/2008:

A couple of enhancements made to the Photo Browse and Photo Timeline applications. Like anyone would notice.

29/11/2008:

Small thumbnails have been added to the Photo Timeline. They should change each day. Will they? I don't know.

16/11/2008:

Photos of:

09/11/2008:

Photos of Anglesey Abbey, Cambridge Science Park and Brimham Rocks.

13/10/2008:

Photos of the trees in Reach Wood, which are coming on strong.
A review of John Perkins' Confessions of an Economic Hit Man .

28/09/2008:

Photos of a party in Yorkshire.

26/09/2008:

More photos of Alaska and Seattle.

24/09/2008:

A review of A Girl in Winter by Philip Larkin.

21/09/2008:

Photos of:

(More to follow.)

23/08/2008:

A review of The Biology of Belief by Bruce Lipton.

26/07/2008:

A review of The Party's Over by Richard Heinberg - a grim read.

24/07/2008:

Photos of:

08/07/2008:

Photos of Cambridge, Cromer and naughty Norwich.

02/07/2008:

Some photos, mostly of the office punting trip.

29/06/2008:

A review of The Nature of Consciousness by Susan Pockett.

26/06/2008:

A few more photos.

14/06/2008:

A review of An Awfully Big Adventure by Beryl Bainbridge.

07/06/2008:

Here's some new stuff:

Photos from the last month
A review of Crossing the Rubicon by Mike Ruppert
A review of Author, Author by David Lodge

03/05/2008:

Photos.

14/04/2008:

Photos and updates to Pop CD catalogue.

27/03/2008:

A review added of Erwin Schrödinger's What is Life?

19/03/2008:

A blog entry on the coming end of civilisation. Enjoy.

18/03/2008:

Photos of Chester and Yorkshire.

05/03/2008:

A review added of The Happiness Hypothesis by Jonathan Haidt.

21/02/2008:

Some photos of the Science Park and updates to the Pop CD catalogue.

09/02/2008:

Some photos (Yorkshire and Ely).

26/01/2008:

A review added of Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks.

05/01/2008:

Some photos.
A review of Oleander, Jacaranda by Penelope Lively.
A review of a book about Fawlty Towers .

15/12/2007:

A review of Penelope Lively's Moon Tiger.

27/11/2007:

Photos from Yorkshire.
A review of a biography of R S Thomas, who was a Welsh poet.

27/10/2007:

With the predictability of a Coldplay tune come this year's Anglesey Abbey autumn photographs.

25/10/2007:

Photos of York.

21/10/2007:

Photos of Bury St. Edmunds, Lavenham and Cambridge.
Updates to the Pop CD catalogue.

20/10/2007:

A review of a biography of DH Lawrence.
More photos.

11/10/2007:

More photos of nothing in particular.

30/09/2007:

John Hiatt's Slow Turning added to the Pop CDs page.

26/09/2007:

Photos from the north.

16/09/2007:

Photos of Saffron Walden.

10/09/2007:

A review of Love, etc by Julian Barnes.

08/09/2007:

Photos of the Cambridge Dragon Boat Festival.

05/09/2007:

Life's a riot in the Cambridge Science Park.

03/09/2007:

Cameraphone photos of the office dragon boat practice session.

30/08/2007:

Photographic fruit of an afternoon in the north Fens.

27/08/2007:

More photos from Yorkshire.

19/08/2007:

A review of Goodbye to All That .

13/08/2007:

Photos of a dual carriageway at dusk.

06/08/2007:

Photos from Norfolk.

30/07/2007:

Photos from my weekly drive through Suffolk.

26/07/2007:

Photos are now retrieved in manageable chunks if there are a lot of them.

22/07/2007:

Photos of woods and pylons.

09/07/2007:

Photos of Rob and Margo's wedding and a couple of days with the parental units.

02/07/2007:

A review of Oxygen: the Molecule that made the World .
Some photos of Chippenham Fen.

11/06/2007:

A new colour scheme for the site, since the last one was pretty awful.
Photos from just outside Cambridge.

06/06/2007:

Photos of:

22/05/2007:

Links to my Amazon CD lists added to the Music page in a fit of egotism.

19/05/2007:

New:

A review of The Russian Interpreter by Michael Frayn.
A review of The Secrets of Self-Hypnosis by Adam Eason.
Photos of Kedington in Suffolk.
Updates to the Pop CD catalogue.

10/05/2007:

A review of Elkhonon Goldberg's The Executive Brain added.

08/05/2007:

Photos of churches, sunsets.

30/04/2007:

April's photo count now suggestive of pathological malfunction... These are of Sudbury.

28/04/2007:

A few photos of parts of Cambridgeshire.

18/04/2007:

A review added of Thinks... by David Lodge.

15/04/2007:

Some photos of some of Suffolk.

14/04/2007:

A review of Uncle Tungsten by Oliver Sacks.

10/04/2007:

Photos from Easter weekend up north.

05/04/2007:

A few photos of Burwell Fen.

01/04/2007:

Most of the photos have been sharpened and made consistent in size, as if it mattered.

12/03/2007:

I've been having a mental time of it lately, reading books by Derren Brown and Aldous Huxley.

And there are some more photos.

07/03/2007:

A few more photos. Not many.

04/03/2007:

Some pictures of tonight's lunar eclipse. Unfortunately I didn't perfect the camera settings till the end, but still, some of them came out surprisingly well.

26/02/2007:

A review added of a biography of André Gide. He was a French writer.

03/02/2007:

The Manic Street Preachers' Know Your Enemy added (with some reservations) to the Pop CDs page.
Having just added to the oBlog page I'm concerned about the impression it gives of me as a raging head-case, although not concerned enough (yet) to stop writing it.

29/01/2007:

Albums by Neil Diamond and Johannes Schmoelling added to the Pop CDs page.

21/01/2007:

Some fenny photos.

16/01/2007:

A page of brief photo notes added.

13/01/2007:

To celebrate the 5th anniversary (*) of me having nothing better to do with my spare time, Dogsticks has been given a garish new look.

The site's optimised for Firefox. In Internet Exploder, some of the headings are a little oversized but I think it's basically OK.

There are one or two small usability/design gremlins still lurking that I intend to get around to fixing some time in the next geological epoch.

Another minor change is that headings in the Photos pages are now clickable, so you can cross-click between dates and places until you find something more interesting to do.

For those non-existent people who care, here's what the site used to look like:

(*) To the day, as it happens.

06/01/2007:

More photos of bits of Yorkshire.

03/01/2007:

More photos.
Updated the UK Poetry Magazines page.

31/12/2006:

Post-Xmas photos added.

23/12/2006:

oBlog updated with festive spleen.

17/12/2006:

First sensible photos from my new digital SLR and its poncy lens.
Pop CD catalogue updated.

10/12/2006:

Photo date search results are now more appealingly arranged. I think so anyway.

09/12/2006:

oBlog added.

08/12/2006:

A review of yet another of those "science and spirituality" books added, but actually this one - The Self-Aware Universe - is quite interesting.

06/12/2006:

An excessive number of photos from a trip to Berlin.

25/11/2006:

A few family pics from Yorkshire.

15/11/2006:

The trees are certainly having a party this autumn: check out these exhibitionists by the B1102 and in the Science Park.

12/11/2006:

More autumn photos - of Cambridge.

11/11/2006:

Yet more photos of Anglesey Abbey (plus a few more of the Science Park).
A poem accepted for publication.

09/11/2006:

Farewell to Bleak House after 10 months.

04/11/2006:

It's this year's autumn snaps of Anglesey Abbey.

01/11/2006:

Autumn comes to the Science Park.

21/10/2006:

Some stuff added to the Pop CD catalogue.

14/10/2006:

A review of Phantoms in the Brain by VS Ramachandran added.

09/10/2006:

A review of The Tax Inspector by Peter Carey added.

30/09/2006:

Publication dates added to the Poems page.
Schubert's 9th Symphony added to the Classical Music page.

23/09/2006:

After a summer of unsuccessful attempts, I finally manage the ascent of Ely Cathedral's octagon tower.

13/09/2006:

Photos of that jewel of Cambridge, the Science Park.

10/09/2006:

Some more bits added to the Classical Music page.

02/09/2006:

Photos from the Yorkshire Dales and a walk in Wales.

22/08/2006:

A random photo thumbnail now appears on the home page, as you can see. You can click it if you want.

20/08/2006:

Random quotations now grace this home page.

05/08/2006:

In the lower levels of the "Photos by place" pages, thumbnails of individual photos are now arranged under date headings. For example here's the photos of Ely.

30/07/2006:

Stuff:

Photos from a visit to outrageously twee Saffron Waldon plus some of telegraph poles near Burwell.
Pop CD Catalogue updated.

27/07/2006:

Photos added of an office trip to Go Ape! in Thetford Forest, done in the name of teambuilding or something.

23/07/2006:

Photos of Bury St. Edmunds and a few more of Ely.

16/07/2006:

Exceptionally clear weather made it a good weekend for photographs of Ely. There are also some of Sudbury, and of Lavenham from a couple of weeks back.

14/07/2006:

New science book review: The Space Between Our Ears by Michael Morgan.

08/07/2006:

A review of Jorge Luis Borges's Fictions added.

20/06/2006:

Some photos of Newark-on-Trent, Gargrave and Skipton added.

16/06/2006:

New photos of various places added.

26/05/2006:

Two poems accepted for publication: this one and this one.

24/04/2006:

The poetry magazines response times page has been funked up slightly.

17/04/2006:

A review of a book about Information Theory added.

08/04/2006:

New photos of Washington, DC and New York.

25/03/2006:

A review of The Holographic Universe by Michael Talbot added.

18/03/2006:

Ooh, there's been a lot going on today:

A page of notes about poetry magazines.
Updates to the Pop CD catalogue.
A couple of albums added to the Favourite Pop CDs page.

09/03/2006:

A review of Untold Stories by Alan Bennett added to the Biography/Memoir Book Reviews page.

08/03/2006:

Photos added:

Cilcain, Wales
Chippenham Fen

26/02/2006:

Photos of Ely added. And one of Swaffham Prior Fen.

06/02/2006:

Pop CD catalogue updated.

22/01/2006:

A review of DNA by James Watson added.

10/01/2006:

A poem.
Photos of Florence.

02/01/2006:

A review of The Conscious Universe by Dean Radin added.
Photos added:
- Bits of Cheshire
- A cat in Thurcroft, S. Yorks
- Long Melford, Suffolk
- Lavenham, Suffolk

18/12/2005:

A poem accepted for publication.
Some photos of Chippenham Fen added.

29/11/2005:

A review of The Non-Local Universe by a couple of geezers added.

19/11/2005:

Pop CD Catalogue brought up to date, pretty much.

18/11/2005:

Stuff:

A few photos of Burwell Church
A review of Science and the Paranormal by Arthur Ellison.

10/11/2005:

Two poems accepted for publication by Other Poetry: one about pylons, the other about nothing much.

06/11/2005:

Some photos of the microscopic Cambridgeshire village of Reach added.
A review of Man and the Natural World by Keith Thomas added to the History Book Reviews page.

02/11/2005:

More photos of Anglesey Abbey added.

30/10/2005:

A review of Entanglement by Amir Aczel added to the Science Book Reviews page.

21/10/2005:

Photos of mellow Wicken Fen added.

03/10/2005:

A review of Slaughterhouse 5 added.

22/09/2005:

A review added of Steve Jones's The Language of the Genes.

16/09/2005:

Photos added of Bratislava and Vienna.

31/08/2005:

A couple more book reviews:

24/08/2005:

Photos of QUALCOMM Cambridge's punting trip added.
Poetry achievement of the year! A poem to appear in 'The Rialto'.

17/08/2005:

New stuff:

Photos from the last 3 months
A review of David Lodge's Therapy
Non-reviews of books I couldn't finish

01/08/2005:

Two book reviews added:

Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's
Uri Geller: Magician or Mystic?

12/07/2005:

A review added of An Anthropologist on Mars.

03/07/2005:

A review added of a book about relativity.

24/06/2005:

A review of an interesting book about hypnosis added.

07/06/2005:

A few miscellaneous photos added.

02/06/2005:

Pop CD Catalogue brought up to date.

28/05/2005:

A review of The God of Small Things added.

14/05/2005:

Reviews of The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat and The Sense of Being Stared At added.

26/04/2005:

Photos of South Africa added.

09/04/2005:

A poem accepted for publication in Poetry Monthly.

06/04/2005:

Some photos of Wharfedale added.

25/03/2005:

A review added of a book on British geology that is almost as old as the rocks it describes.

14/03/2005:

A work trip to California is recorded in photos.

26/02/2005:

Pop CD Catalogue brought up to date.

17/02/2005:

Photo timeline added.

12/02/2005:

More floral activity at Anglesey Abbey. (After following the link, scroll down to view the latest pictures, or alternatively click here.)

08/02/2005:

A review of Gerald Edelman's Bright Air, Brilliant Fire added.

31/01/2005:

Poetry mag Obsessed with Pipework is going to publish either Between Estuaries or M6 Toll Plaza.

11/01/2005:

A review of George Johnson's Fire in the Mind added.

03/01/2005:

Stuff added:

Average submission response times for UK poetry magazines.
A few more photos.
A review of Nice Work by David Lodge.

24/12/2004:

Three (count 'em) more poems accepted for publication in Fire. Also, the list of poems is now database-generated.

08/12/2004:

Another poem ('Sleeper') due for publication.

04/12/2004:

A review of Gide's L'immoraliste has been added.

02/12/2004:

Searching photos by date is now possible. To demonstrate just how possible, some new photos have been uploaded.

13/11/2004:

Improved photo viewing - 'Prev' and 'Next' links added to photo pages.

05/11/2004:

A review of The Emperor's New Mind added.

04/10/2004:

A review of Crime and Punishment added.
A Music Book Reviews page added.
A brief-to-the-point-of-pointlessness review of a book on Beethoven added.

23/09/2004:

Another poem ('Winter') accepted for publication.

16/09/2004:

Photos of Poland added.

07/09/2004:

Photos of Cambridge, Burwell, Great Bradley and Rattlesden added.
A review of Paul Auster's City of Glass added.

03/09/2004:

Two more poems due to be published.

30/08/2004:

Some recent photos of Norfolk added.

27/08/2004:

A review of Nick Herbert's Quantum Reality added.

25/08/2004:

A few bits and pieces added to the Pop CD Catalogue.
A solitary Science link has been added.

16/08/2004:

Photos of Wales and London have been added.
I've just finished reading Heinz R Pagels' The Cosmic Code.
Another of my miserable poems has been accepted for publication.

29/07/2004:

A review of Eric Hobsbawm's The Age of Capital added.

26/07/2004:

A review of a strange book called The Cosmic Serpent added.

19/07/2004:

Some photos of Cheshire and Staffordshire added.

22/06/2004:

Weeks of wrestling with Perl and MySQL have finally yielded database-driven photo viewing.

27/05/2004:

A review of Lampedusa's The Leopard added.

06/05/2004:

Reviews of some more biographies that I've read over the years have been added.

27/04/2004:

Fine weather, lighter evenings and a digital camera mean further photos to inflict on visitors. These are of Suffolk and - just for a change - Cambridgeshire.

20/04/2004:

Yet more photos of fens added.

17/04/2004:

A review of John Ruskin's Selected Writings added.

03/04/2004:

The Pop CD Catalogue is now pretty much complete.

01/04/2004:

Photos of Venice added.

21/02/2004:

More photos of the Fens added.

17/02/2004:

Reviews of some more weighty pre-1900 novels added.
Some photos of the Fens added.

03/02/2004:

News items older than 3-odd months are now siphoned off onto an archive page.

29/01/2004:

Two more of my poems are going to be published by the ever-charitable Pulsar.
A Links page has been added.

26/01/2004:

A review of Norman Davies' 'The Isles' added to the History Book Reviews page.

24/01/2004:

More entries added to the pop CD catalogue..

15/12/2003:

Further expansion of the pop CD catalogue has taken place.

29/11/2003:

Some more entries added to the pop CD catalogue.

11/11/2003:

Some photos of Anglesey Abbey added.

09/11/2003:

A review of 'Identity' by Milan Kundera added.

02/11/2003:

The Photos page now has thumbnails, and some pictures of Brittany.

13/10/2003:

Pop CD Catalogue added.

20/09/2003:

Two more poems added.

26/07/2003:

A review of The Light of Day by Graham Swift added.

Reviews of other books have also been spruced up slightly.

(PS Recently updated items now have an 'Updated' label.)

12/07/2003:

Two more classical music reviews added.

(PS New items on all pages now have a 'NEW!' label indicating when they were added.)

09/07/2003:

A review of Stefan Zweig's Schachnovelle added.

04/07/2003:

It's been a busy day:

A review of Great Expectations added.
Three more of my favourite pop CDs added.
Two new poems added.

18/06/2003:

A review of Afternoons in Utopia added to the Pop CDs page.

11/06/2003:

Another poem (Swimming) added.

31/05/2003:

More stuff added to the UK Poetry Magazines page.

25/05/2003:

Another poem (Twitch) added.

08/05/2003:

Comments on Beethoven's Hammerklavier sonata updated to include Stephen Kovacevich's new recording. Another poem (Trouble) added.

24/04/2003:

A review (only half a century late) of JK Galbraith's The Affluent Society added.

21/03/2003:

What do Simple Minds and Ludwig van Beethoven have in common? They have both just had reviews added to Dogsticks.

11/03/2003:

The last of Dogsticks' broken links has been banished. Appropriately enough this historic event is due to the addition of the History Book Reviews page.

10/03/2003:

I've just finished reading The Older Hardy by Robert Gittings. Not only that - I've also written a review of it.

08/03/2003:

How could I create a Web page about my favourite bits of classical music and not include Mahler's 4th Symphony? I couldn't.

06/03/2003:

My pontifications on Paul Simon's Negotiations and Love Songs are now public. In addition, the other pop reviews have had some of their scabs of stylistic infelicity sand-blasted off. Ouch!

24/02/2003:

Pages for individual poems are now generated dynamically by a CGI script (saves me having to HTMLify them by hand). Book reviews will soon be getting the same treatment, I hope.

22/02/2003:

People have been clamouring* for the Biography book reviews page to be added. Here it is then.

* Not really.

12/02/2003:

More unstructured musings on classical music added.

11/02/2003:

The Classical Music page now exists, consisting currently of one review.

09/02/2003:

A review of Money by Martin Amis has been added.

12/01/2003:

The Music page makes its belated appearance.

05/01/2003:

A few more UK poetry magazines added.

20/12/2002:

Here's what I think of UK poetry magazines!

15/12/2002:

A review of Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep added.

03/12/2002:

Another poem, Flying After Fifteen Years, added.

30/08/2002:

A review of Ian McEwan's The Cement Garden added.

29/08/2002:

Photos of Lithuania added.

12/08/2002:

More poems added.

04/08/2002:

A review of Jane Austen's Emma added.

16/06/2002:

The first batch of science reviews has just been delivered to the Book Reviews area. Get 'em while they're hot!

23/05/2002:

Dogsticks goes dynamic: a CGI script now puts a Dogsticks frame around individual photos.

15/05/2002:

Blimey! I've had another poem accepted for publication.

06/05/2002:

Dogsticks goes stateside: check out the new exhibition on the Photos page.

30/04/2002:

Dogsticks is now on a different server, and has its own domain name. World domination to follow shortly.

26/03/2002:

The Poetry page has been purged of broken links.

25/03/2002:

Site slightly restructured.
A review of Andy Croft's Just As Blue added.

16/03/2002:

Three more book reviews added to the increasingly unwieldy Post-1900 Fiction page.

09/03/2002:

A few more book reviews added to the Post-1900 Fiction page.

05/03/2002:

Photos of East Anglia are now on display in the Photos page.

25/02/2002:

More book reviews added to the Post-1900 Fiction and Miscellaneous Non-Fiction pages.

24/02/2002:

Pre-1900 Fiction and Miscellaneous Non-Fiction book reviews pages created.

23/01/2002:

The Photos page now has things in it!

13/01/2002:

Dogsticks up and running.

Dogsticks was created from XML source files using the fab Saxon Java XSL processor, which is free from somewhere on the Net.

Future projects include:

Pumping the site full of pointless content.
Creating pages dynamically using a combination of Perl and XSLT. (I have to learn Perl first so there may be a substantial wait.)



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