The Privy Counsel (A Bog Blog)

Being bored to the point of taking actual car sickness tablets - in the hope of being knocked out for twelve to fifteen hours - by the retro...

It's a funny thing, running an intellectual bog blog. Most people quite rightly don't give a crap and would rather chew off their o...

[content note: extensive vulgarity and exaggerated use of dependent clauses] We are feeling rather smugger than usual at the moment. Toda...

Quite possibly nobody noticed - at least we haven't received any emails from desperate, traumatised people* - but actually something we...

As I dressed for dinner that night, I was conscious of an impending doom. "Jeeves," I said, "have you ever pondered on Life...

Today's theme is, by popular request, "unwanted guests". As  Obsessive Emmerdale Friend  pointed out, having an unwanted visi...

We received a postcard. The kind of postcard that reminds one that everyone has to accept the consequences of their actions. We write a blo...

Ho-hum. Here we were, trying primarily to a) relax and CTFD, but getting increasingly anxious and resorting to b) getting some sodding work...

Don't ask us why, but it's time for another Privy Counsel Pin-Up . Likewise don't ask us why, but we were lucky enough to ...

We find ourselves so exhausted by recent academic, and other, exploits, that we are utterly unable to do anything more taxing than vegetati...

Here at the Privy Counsel, we're in favour of all things bath-related and ecological. Modern bathrooms, though usually comfortable (unl...

  Our recent dry, scholarly raid into monastic plumbing has given us an itch to contemplate something slightly more frivolous. Luckily, we...