Given my brief (admittedly lacklustre) childhood flirtation with astronomy - and my ongoing chuminess with the worlds of Sci-Fi, comics etc. - it should come as no surprise that I’ve always been a big fan of the planet Mars …

Question: What does a fella with (still) no broadband access and limited time do at this time of the year?

Answer: Repost his Halloween observations from last year. Hoorah!

#1 - Halloween Games:

Though "bobbing for apples" is a pursuit commonly associated …

Not since the appearance of a stain resembling Jesus Christ on the wall of a pub in Wolfe Tone St. (some time ago) has the Limerick Leader delved into the world …

Courtesy of Alex Boese's Museum of Hoaxes I had my attention drawn to the following story…and what a story it is. Residents of the Crichton area of Mobile, Alabama (a 'black neighbourhood' in case you’re wondering) have recently reported …

Apropos of nothing I feel like indulging in a little Wednesday night (defiant) catharsis, while simultaneously scaring 16 shades of bejaysus out of you, dear reader.

I have, as attentive fústarers may recall, blogged before about Graham J. McEwan's delightful 'bestiary', …

'Guest Post' by Copernicus

Who's that poking their heads over the half door and the twilight as purple in the western sky as the heather on the bog? Come in, come in, musha, and settle ye about the hearth. …

'Guest Post' by Copernicus

Before I go to bed at night, having replenished the horn of nerdom with a couple of Star Trek episodes, I pause before the bookshelves in the hall, pluck from them a random volume and, …

Thoroughly intriguing story in yesterday's Guardian about a Mr. Barney Broom (of Gunthorpe, north Norfolk) discovering…well…what can best be described as a pickled model of a baby 'grey alien' in his loft. Yikes!…