In the documentary film The Road to Sparta, we took the slightly off-beam decision to turn to poetry […]
Category Archive: Culture
It is over 20 years since I last bumped into Michael Abrahamson. Pretty sure it was in a […]
Heinrich is a special kind of guide. A trained archaeologist with the appropriate eye for detail and a […]
Five years ago, I wrote a review on this blog about a book called Malcolm is a Little […]
When a runner completes the 246-kilometre Spartathlon he or she earns a rare privilege. A last stretch of […]
For the last 12 months I have been getting stressed. About a house. Not my house you understand, […]
The guide at the National Gallery in London wasn’t entirely sure where I might find Rubens. She furrowed […]
It was inevitable there would be a few nerves. After two and a half years of hard work, […]
Like many people this morning, my thoughts are with David Bowie who has died in New York from […]
It is almost two weeks now since the photographer Mike King collapsed at his mother’s house and died at the […]
