I’ve been raiding a friend’s bookshelves of late and have been gorging myself on cycling books, mainly about touring and seeing the world, though she’s been slowly steering me towards autobiographies, such as Lance Armstrong’s account of his battle with …
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n+1 The formula for dictating the minimum number of bikes a person should own, n being the existing number. Having recently doubled the number of wheels in the shed (a Marin hybrid and an Orbea road bike) , next on …
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Kittens! Come on, admit it, you can’t resist. Or if you can, you have a heart of stone. Kindle I keep to-ing and fro-ing on the idea of an e-reader. I become far less sentimental about “real books” every time …
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History I stopped enjoying history lessons when the lessons stopped being about people. Well, my GCSE and A-Level teacher didn’t help matters either, but a subject that had hitherto fascinated me suddenly became inexplicably boring and I stopped working. It’s …
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Although I’ve read The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings more times than I can count, I wouldn’t exactly class myself as a massive Tolkien fan – I’ve never read more than a few chapters of The Silmarillion and …
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I’ve never pursued sailing as a hobby, which is odd when you consider that I’m a sailor’s daughter, but I spent my childhood enjoying landlubber activities and the open sea, despite being on the doorstep, remained my father’s territory and …
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