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When I saw Richard Dawkins sitting down in front of a piano, I was afraid that he might be about to give us a rendition of an old Anglican ...

There's a fabulous website (for readers of my kind… whatever that fuzzy expression might mean) known as Edge , which was created by the ...

When I heard of the existence of the following list of names, my immediate reaction was: "No, that's not possible. It's surely ...

I was intrigued by an article in the French press revealing that Dutch food researchers are advancing rapidly in the domain of new foodstuff...

As an Australian, moved by the legendary toughness of our northern cousins, I find it intellectually embarrassing that a dimwitted 59-year-o...

I'm probably not mistaken, dear reader, in supposing that you would be quite incapable of distinguishing between a bit of bark from, say...

The sun was shining, yesterday, at Gamone. It was almost like a warm spring day. So, I went out walking with the dogs. As usual, Fitzroy ta...

In my recent post entitled Latest deductions from Skyvington research [ display ] , I explained that I've been grouping together all th...

Peter Nicholson has kindly allowed me to reproduce the following cartoon which appeared in The Australian a few days ago: We see here the ...

It has happened, at last, in Tunisia! Nobody was expecting that things would unfold so rapidly… Eva Joly has just requested the financial f...

This is a great video. Towards the end, we discover Richard Dawkins reposing on a sofa in front of a fireplace and reading out his hate mai...

Click the image to access a video that presents a project for the construction of a luxury liner that would be named France . The project is...

Since March 2009, Anna Bligh has been the state premier of Queensland. Although this has been a prestigious title and task (she's one o...

Here's the original version of Fuck You from the US singer whose stage name is Cee Lo Green : Click the following image of a 22-year-ol...

Thanks to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation , excellent media coverage of the flooding is available here in France. [Click the banner ...

French TV and the Internet enable me to follow closely the terrible tragedy that is unfolding in Queensland. Everything seems to be happenin...

Some people can get infatuated about the most unexpected themes. Just click the door and you can step inside. There are some fine sites in F...

Although I'm not an obsessive tweeter, I remind readers that you can communicate with me at the address @Skyvington Yesterday, I was amu...

In my recent article entitled Shot stupidly for truffles [ display ] , I evoked the banal subject of rural people here in France who own sh...

As every genealogical adept knows, the quality of the Mormon IGI database [ International Genealogical Index ] is truly amazing… particular...