Nick Page

I’m just reading a dauntingly large book on the historical Jesus. Although, when I picked it up it proved to be not quite as daunting as it first appeared. Of the 868 pages in the book, only 393 are the actual narrative: the rest is the other apparatus- indices, notes, bibliography, etc. It’s very good, [...]

I came across this blurb the other day. It’s not perhaps the most positive start to a sales pitch: ‘This book represents a radical new departure for Jürgen Moltmann, not least in the lucidity of its writing.’ In other words, for the first time you might actually understand one of his books. One gets the [...]

But I do. According to the blurb on the blog, the jorunal was ‘a sophisticated international review, on the Dada-Surrealist axis, but with a strong Constructivist component as well.’ So now you know.

I’m always intrigued by ingenuity in fitting a lot of living into a small space. Claire and I started out our married life in a bedsit, our living room was our bedroom. I wish we’d had this kind of furniture. I love the desk that converts into a bed. It would enable me to combine [...]

There’s something about a man and his shed. (I was thinking of writing an English version of the Shack, only calling it ‘The Shed’.) Anyway, there are sheds and then there are SHEDS. And here, people, is the Cuprinol Shed of the Year 2010, a pirate-themed extravaganza from – where else? – Essex. And, yes, [...]