The literary world is aflush, it seems, with ruddy-cheeked excitement at the election for the next Oxford Professor […]
Author: barneyspender
It was a busy weekend of sport; the end of the Premier League season, England winning a Test […]
Done. Dusted. Another half-marathon in the warmth of a May morning in north-east London. No records, no glory. […]
Oops. Spent Sunday morning watching the London Marathon. Fantastic event. Elite runners pushing at the boundaries of world […]
Spyridon Tsagarakis is perhaps best known as a fashion designer; his clothes can be found in the wardrobes […]
It has taken 114 years but now I feel, at last, I can look my grandfather in the […]
Some time ago, in the dim and distant past that was the 1980s, I was in a Dublin […]
It was around 11 o’clock on Saturday morning when Dean Karnazes (right) slipped past the ruins of the temple […]
This is going to be interesting. Very interesting. A test of mind and body. Sleep deprivation, hunger, inevitable […]
Self-help books are all the rage. Titles like How to Write a Blog (must read that one when […]
