If there's one thing that really annoys a god, it's not knowing something.

Let's see, now... in HOGFATHER there are a number of stabbings, someone's killed by a man made of knives, someone's killed by the dark, and someone just been killed by a wardrobe. It's a book about the magic of childhood. You can tell.

Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

But there was more to it than that. As the Amazing Maurice said, it was just a story about people and rats. And the difficult part of it was deciding who the people were, and who were the rats.

Around it are those countries which, according to History, constitute the civilised world ie, a world that can support historians

Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.

I'm interested in mythology generally, but India has no special place in my heart - although Hindu gods seem a lot more fun.