My earlier post on the ludicrous nature of sport may have given some of you the idea than I disapprove of exercise. Far from it. I think exercise is just fine. As long as you do it outside, and preferably for free.
Which is why I have taken up running.
Running up and down the River Lea [...]
Nick has written up such a nice piece on our day out to Epping Forest that I’m not even going to bother writing my own.
Just visit narcsblog to read it in full.
It was unlikely that Disney were ever going to bring out a film called Prince of Iran. Somehow tales of sand-stormed swashbuckling and unlikely love are a slightly trickier sell when you’ve got the name of a member of the axis of evil in the title.
And yet, have we really moved on so little that [...]
This is what happens when you have been writing about uniforms for over a year…
There are few things less likely to recommend an item to my favour than the Krankies. Very few things. You can say what you like about diminutive cross-dressing variety entertainers, but I very much doubt you’ll say that you want the [...]
Are we experiencing a new wave in Israeli cinema?
A shit strewn tank ploughing its way into civilian chaos, two butchers struggling with the weight of beef and forbidden lust between them, massacre in refugee camps; the Israeli Film Fund don’t exactly go in for lightweight musical comedies. With the release of one of their latest [...]
So, sport, eh? Not just Blur’s work-in-progress album name for Parklife. Oh no. Sport is also an excuse for aggressive, lazy men to dress like toddlers.
Who else but a ‘sporting man’ would choose to dress in a bright red t-shirt and draw-string, stretchy, don’t-put-a-fly-in-them-it’ll-only-confuse-us trousers? Who else would wear primary-coloured shorts with oversized socks and [...]
Right wing, incompetent, snivelling, obstructive, clueless and a liar. There’s just something about Frank Burns that’s terribly familiar. If only I could remember what. Ah well, I’m sure I’ll work it out in the end.
In the meantime, I leave you with these infamous words from the Major himself:
“It’s nice to be nice… to the nice.”
“Never [...]
But this time I got a round of applause.
During a bank holiday jaunt to the Yorkshire Dales I got a standing ovation from a group of walkers when, about 10 seconds after this was taken (and about 6 seconds after the camera broke) I dived in for a quick dip.
Thank you to Wild Swimming for [...]
A quick piece I was asked to write for Little White Lies on election day.
Nell Frizzell elects an unbeatable cast of acting Prime Ministers.
As the country comes together for the biggest and most secretive game of noughts and crosses for four years, and the streets are awash with more rosettes than a gymkhana, it’s time [...]