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Director’s Fitness Diary no 4: In Which We Run Some of The Way, And Are Told Off By A Dear (Old) Friend
Friends, harriers, supporters, lend me your heels! Thanks to everyone who sponsored, especially Guthlac and Ecgfrith : but are you real?…
The Reader Abroad #4 : Sark – Island of Books (and cream teas)
In which The Reader visits slow time on the island of Sark and things nearly come to a complete halt.
Director’s Fitness Diary no 3
Thanks for all your comments, suggestions, support and donations! Did another walk with some running and actually enjoyed some of…
Director’s Fitness Diary no 2
Thighs minus oxygen equal concrete bollards How have small squat people survived? Surely when the prehistoric clan ran away from…
Director’s Fitness Diary
Having signed up for the team challenge 5k in aid of Our Read I've been extending my usual 15 minute…
The Reader Abroad #3
The Reader team find some tea and two deck-chairs in the the smallest secondhand bookshop in the world, but lose…
Nellibobs’ Friday Night #21: ‘A Bowl of Cherries’
All's not well in the jungle...Mr Nellist swings from tree to tree but doesn't like Peacocks, Phantoms, Mandelson or soupy…
Nellibobs’ Friday Night #20: ‘Literature of Obstinacy and Stubbornness’
Mr Nellist continues his birthday celebration by considering the literature of obstinacy and stubborness: Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure and…
The Nellibobs Returns: 75 Glorious Years!
Nellibobs returns to your screens for 2010 with a Birthday Special in which he tells us what he has learned…
Welcome to the Reading Revolution, Frank!
Frank Field’s suggestion in today’s Times that English literature might be used to help people learn to be good parents…
Green and Greasy: the rural idyll and the sell out event at Hay
Getting there from Merseyside, for a start, is a leisurely four hour drive through the green hills and cow-parsley –…
Picasso: Peace and Freedom
Coffee this morning from a really gorgeous Picasso: Peace and Freedom mug, £7.50 from the 'dedicated' shop in the final…
