Tony Hatfield's Retired Ramblings

Two Brains- David Willetts and Dinosaurs

David Willetts is the Tory spokesman on Innovation, Universities and Skills. His nickname is "Two Brains" for his formidable intellect. It's not often known that some species of dinosaur also had two brains. Apart from that in its skull, a... Read more →

David supersized

David supersized Originally uploaded by mafleen ...but not all Thanks m Read more →

The Art of Spain

BBC4 one of Auntie's digital channels has, over the past three weeks, been showing Andrew Graham-Dixon's "Art of Spain". G-D managed to visit a good number of the UNESCO world heritage sites in Spain., and it's pretty hard not to... Read more →

Banksy

You can see more of Banksy's work improving Israel's Wall of Shame on his website This one is called "Cut There" Enjoy! t Read more →

Northern Exposure

The North-East culture is not all Broon Ale and whippets. On Sunday this week, 1700 hundred threw away their clothes for a few hours to take part in American artist Spencer Tunick's intallation work. And before you ask, no, the... Read more →

Politics and the English Language

This is from Chicken Yoghurt's blog: On Thursday last week, I had a very rare and blissful weekday away from my desk. In the sun, I read and re-read George Orwell's essay, Politics and the English Language. (You can find... Read more →

And the Pig Got up.......

http://tinyurl.com/e4bnx "One evening in October, when I was one-third sober, An' taking home a ‘load' with manly pride; My poor feet began to stutter, so I lay down in the gutter, And a pig came up an' lay down by... Read more →

Tetris Shelving

For anyone hooked on that game may find these shelves tickety-boo! Cherrs t Read more →

To Rhyme or Not to Rhyme.

This Month's Slate magazine has a piece by Robert Pinsky. He discusses poetry and rhyme, and gives this example of Ben Jonson "taking both sides of the rhyme question". A FIT OF RIME AGAINST RIME Rime, the rack of finest... Read more →