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In my brief jaunt to Bamberg & Würzburg last month, I only managed to pick up one new Ritter Sport to road-test. And it was a pretty goo...

This blog has got awfully serious, hasn't it? Time to talk about chocolate again. Today's instalment of the Ritter Sport ratings co...

My little Journal of Historical Syntax has been in existence for a year and a half now. The Executive Committee of the LSA has requested so...

The Pirate Party UK asked me to write a piece for them on Open Access. You can find it here: http://www.pirateparty.org.uk/blog/2013/mar/3...

In a previous post I've blogged about my inexplicable affection for railways, especially abandoned ones. It may then come as no surpris...

This semester I've been using Prezi as a visual aid in my lectures. I decided it would be a useful exercise to summarize my thoughts on...

Greetings (and ratings) from Stuttgart, where everything is closed on Sundays. (Ah, Catholic Europe, how I love thee.) Waldbeer Joghurt: ...

I wasn't planning to write anything more on the issue of job security, but I've been really pleasantly surprised by the number of pe...

Update, 17th March 2021: I wrote this post nearly a decade ago, and have since become convinced that it's the single worst thing I'v...

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...