Archive for the 'Events' Category

The long journey to experience

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

It’s all about the experience, because it’s experience not things that matter. At least that’s the latest theory of present giving. After all, what do you get the man who has everything… or at least enough to make CD and paperback storage a problem.
So, this Christmas my lovely girlfriend gave me a year’s membership of […]

My small nemesis

Thursday, December 27th, 2007

I’m still aching. When I walked down to the shops at lunch, the tops of my thighs were burning. It’s not as bad as yesterday though: after I finished the race, I couldn’t really talk and the tight, nauseous feeling in my stomach left me fighting the urge to throw up.
This messy state of affairs […]

Try-athlete

Monday, August 7th, 2006

The team
On Saturday, I took part in the Team Olympic event of the London Triathlon doing the cycling leg. I was a part of the company team, well, their ‘B’ team actually: the Jokers rather than the Aces. As I’d only been told about it three weeks before, I approached the event with some trepidation […]

Titus And-gore-icus

Tuesday, July 4th, 2006

On Saturday I went to see Titus Andronicus, at â€?Shakespeare’s Globe’ – although, surely â€?The Globe’ is enough. This was the first time I have ever been there – and it’s not bad. The circular building has a solid, substantial feel – it’s made with gigantic pieces of timber that you don’t see in modern […]