Nick Page

The other day I had some new Bibles in the post. Produced by Hodder they are brilliant little Moleskine-esque Bibles. Here are some comparison pictures (Moleskine is on the right): Typeface is good and readable as well. And it also comes in a girly pink version. Which my middle daughter has already nabbed. She can [...]

Wonderful presents today! From my kids a box of Lyra Ferby pencils. Just love the colours and now want to spend all day doodling. (And my friends Alice and Simon gave me the pencils!) And from my wife a simply fantastic Alba wind up gramophone:the Alba Concert Soundbox. Click here to see (and hear) it [...]

Brilliant piece by Charlie Brooker in today’s Grauniad about the BNP’s new party political amateur video. Here’s a good bit: If the BNP really were the greatest British party, they’d have the greatest British designer working for them – Jonathan Ive, perhaps, the man who designed the iPod. But they don’t. They’ve got someone who [...]

Personally I think the best thing to do with an old book is read it. I don’t like the idea of cutting up books – however old and obsolete. But, if you’re going to do it, then why not do something astonishing. Like this… From the Telegraph: Brian Dettmer is an American artist who takes [...]

The current hot political topic is the sacking resignation of the Speaker of the House of Commons, Michael Martin. Apart from obscuring the slightly unfortunate fact that it was not, after all, the Speaker who submitted all those expense claims, it would also be the first time in over 300 years that a speaker has [...]

On the eve of the Eurovision Song Contest, I was dismayed to see that Legoland has been denied the right to enter a song: Geneva, 8 May 2009: The European Broadcasting Union* (EBU) said today that it could not accept an entry from Legoland to the Eurovision Song Contest in Moscow next week, despite a [...]

The Telegraph has an interesting display of movie posters from films with biblical themes. I love this one, for Rosselini’s Il Messia (despite ths sixties hippy Jesus). Not so sure about the films called Fabiola. I must have missed her in the Bible.

Good article in The Grauniad today about index cards. I have a fetish about these: I use them all the time for notes, memos, to-do lists, doodles, speaking notes – you name it. (I am particularly fond of a French brand called Exacompta which does really neat quadrille cards, but you can’t get them in [...]

There’s a fascinating article in today's Independent about endangered trees in Kazakhstan. Apparently, the original versions of the apple, the apricot and the walnut are all found in this area – the historic ancestors of the varieties we all enjoy today. (The original apple is called Malus sieversii and the apple gives its name to [...]

Nice piece in the Grauniad this morning about the historicity - or otherwise - of Carry on Cleo. Speaking as one who used to have a sound sample of Kenneth Williams shouting ‘Infamy! Infamy! They’ve all got it in for me!’ on his computer (in the early days of Mac Powerbooks – before custom ringtones [...]