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Went to Norway this month. Went on the train via Germany, just so I could get some Ritter Sport on the way. What? Kakaosplitter: 9/10 Th...

I've just finished reading David Bellos's recent book on translation, 'Is That a Fish in your Ear?' (Penguin, 2011). It verg...

So, I arrived in Berlin yesterday and made my way immediately to a rather special place: the Ritter Sport Bunte Schokowelt ('colourful ...

A while back (actually a couple of decades), Geoffrey Pullum published a piece called 'Some lists of things about books'. You can fi...

The nominations are in, and it's official: there will be four candidates for the position of Chancellor of the University of Cambridge. ...

This is an important one! If you have a Cambridge masters degree or higher, or know someone who does, be sure to read on. According to an in...

New varieties. Even though I was in Germany for less than a day, I still managed to pick up four new flavours, all for the sake of you, my b...

My sole remaining grandparent is 89 years old. Her husband has been dead for nearly a decade. She's entirely blind in one eye and half-b...

Got on the train from Derbyshire Moooved down to a Cambridge home Got a moustache and an ill-kept beard Some research papers and a syntax t...

Ah, it's a great excuse to go to Germany at least twice a year. Ritter religiously bring out summer and winter varieties; so here they a...

I'm talking about education, innit? Lest anyone get the wrong idea: we've been here before. The Browne Review recommends cutting pub...

Another look at the blockbuster show that's currently taking the US by storm. ABC's new hit drama, WOOD, is a live-action remake of ...

I recently (actually, round about this time last year) came across an obituary for Sir David Serpell in the Times, and it got me thinking. Y...

"Randomness" is fashionable these days. You can't get away from it. It's very trendy to be just a little bit crazy, and to...

My contract was coming to an end, and I had far too much holiday allowance left over, so I decided to spend four days of it to take all of a...

So! Much, much later, I finally get around to blogging about the family coming to visit. Instead of posting the photos here and clogging up ...

Another interlude: this one a visit to the lovely city of Munich, where I spent three months during my gap year (over three years ago now - ...