After reading The Birds I went on to other du Maurier short stories, and found I enjoyed them even more than The Birds.

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This exemplifies many of the qualities of dM's writing:

• The ability to create an air of the supernatural, but without anything supernatural …

I've just got my polling card for the Trowbridge Central Elections 10th July 2008 but I can't find a list of who's standing, so I don't know how to vote. Can anyone help?

My friend Dave sent me an article and asked:

Tony - how do you as a fan of the free market address this issue - bankrupting farmer seems to be a structure consequence of your favoured global free markets?...Dave

Dave went on to give his view:

Basically the green revolution has …

I put up my hand at every opportunity, but to no avail. In the question and answer part of the Science Cafe, I didn't get to ask my question on whether instead of engineering our [food]{style="font-style: italic;"} to avoid obesity, we could tackle it from the other direction …

Reading To The Hermitage was like listening to an extremely erudite raconteur who happens to have an obsession with Diderot. I learnt an awful lot about Diderot and the other Enlightenment figures, all imparted in a gossipy, conversational style. My ignorance of Diderot means I've probably missed some of the …

I've just tried out Second Life and I was pleased to see they've got a Linux version. I was a bit shy and didn't actually talk to anyone. They get you to do a few exercises to make sure you've learnt the basics, and I've just completed those. Btw, if …

Wow, an author comment! How cool is that? I've been insufferable, boasting to all and sundry about it.

This isn't metonymy, I'm not talking about the cost of blogging. I lost my wallet and a guy called Matt picked it up, found my blog by searching on my name, and emailed me! We arranged to meet at the place I lost it, and he returned it to me …

As a member of Greenpeace, they emailed me asking me to support their campaign against the Heathrow airport expansion. I don't support the campaign, and here's why.

Let's assume that levels of CO2 are okay up to 450 ppm. Since there's an upper limit, it means we've got to use …

Hi Tony. I'm the author...I was trawling through blog hits on 'Last Light' and found your post.

First of all, thanks for name-checking the book, I'm glad you enjoyed it. I'd dearly love to think market-forces will dive in and bail us out at the eleventh hour, and they …