It’s not often you’ll find me with my nose in such a highfalutin journal as the New York Review of Books, but this week was an exception. It was Wikipedia, of course, led me to their ivory door. Earlier in the month they published an article on Wiki written by the American novelist Nicholson Baker […]
Two thoughts ~
The first from the incomparable Evelyn Waugh:
The imperious young Waugh catches you with his gimlet gaze
I do not think I shall ever forget the sight of Etna at sunset; the mountain almost invisible in a blur of pastel grey, glowing on the top and then repeating its shape, as though reflected, in a […]
Gaucho is back from skiing all in one piece, despite not having been seen on the slopes for 21 years. As a vitual beginner I was convinced I was bound to be the person to do their leg in, and with the Edinburgh marathon looming just a couple of months away, I was bricking […]
I was done in last night. A ski trip tomorrow meant that I had to do my weekly long run for the marathon earlier than normal. So I ran the long work run three times - a whopping 16 and a half miles… After that, even getting home was a bit tricky, I had to […]
