“When Cash in the Attic came on, I just had to stop everything.”
“Is there is an Ikea in Bucharest?”
“I do like Chinese food usually. It’s just that Frank doesn’t like stuff that’s too exotic.”
“You just need trumpets.”
“When Cash in the Attic came on, I just had to stop everything.”
“Is there is an Ikea in Bucharest?”
“I do like Chinese food usually. It’s just that Frank doesn’t like stuff that’s too exotic.”
“You just need trumpets.”
Cervinia is not the most beautiful of ski resorts. Its architecture is functional and in today’s cloud looked far from inspiring. But, even this late in the season, its ski runs more than make up for the lack of chocolate box views which I’ve been used to in Austria and Switzerland. And, of course, because…
Buckle up. This is an essay, rather than a short read… The Scarf Every year on 1 August I open a drawer containing rather more Scout scarves than any sensible person ought to own and spend a few moments deciding which one to wear. It is never quite as straightforward a decision as it sounds….
I am not a member of any political party. That feels worth saying at the outset. For many years, I belonged to the party I had followed since I was a student. It helped shape my political instincts and gave expression to many of the values I still hold. But in time I resigned my…
Hottest day of the year so far. I have just come inside having fallen asleep after lunch in the garden and realise that tomorrow I may well resemble a lobster. It’ll be a lobster that’s running 10k in St Albans, and I guess they are few and far between, but it will be a lobster…
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s Beanoman, on his last half-marathon of the year in Bedford. 2 hours 6 minutes. The course was quite hilly, but the weather was perfect. A really fun morning.
As a child, I wasn’t much of a sportsman. Asthmatic, lacking in co-ordination, a bit scared of team games. But, in the last couple of years of secondary school, I did discover cross country running. And, when I was searching for a sport to do for my Duke of Edinburgh’s Award, I…