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I caught the last fifteen minutes of Simon Reeves' programme on the Mediterranean the other day: he was in northern Corsica, admiring...

I found myself shouting at the radio yesterday morning. I was up slightly later than normal, so when I turned the radio on in the bathroom, ...

Just another normal weekend in Nottingham. I don't care what everyone says: I think that there's nothing wrong with Britian. Ed...

Young People. A conversation at work today: "Oh, you know that guy who looks like that tennis player?" "The guy that loo...

With his son about to vote in favour of bombing Syria, now seems like a good time to remind ourselves of a couple of quotes by the late T...

There are lots of strange things happening in British politics at the moment, but perhaps the most remarkable is the fact that those memb...

I had my bike stolen this week. At some point between going to bed at midnight on Monday night and coming downstairs a little before 7am t...

Some of the younger members of my team had a board game night yesterday. They came into the office clutching bags filled with games like “ S...

At the risk of sounding like a grumpy old man, one of the things that makes me most angry is when I cycle down the Victoria Embankment by th...

Last Friday, I went to watch some cricket at Trent Bridge. The timings of the 20:20 games this year mean that they are almost all on Fri...

We had a team away day today.  We were away from the office and in the genteel surroundings of the Trent Bridge Inn.  Wetherspoons pubs may ...

It's my birthday on Saturday, but I'm on holiday tomorrow and so I came back from a meeting at lunchtime today to discover that ...

At some point on Friday evening, there was an explosion and a burst of fire from a manhole cover underneath a West Bridgford street.  Sho...

Overheard in the gents toilets at the Rescue Rooms quiz this evening: "Women or beer?" "Oh, that's an easy one. ...

I've been cycling to work for about ten months now.  It's only four miles to work, give or take, but it soon adds up, and I've a...

I watched Game of Thrones last night.  I've tried hard to make what follows spoiler free, but if you're following the programme and ...

I live in a safe Conservative seat.  Ken Clarke is a Tory grandee and has been our MP since June 1970.  His office is just down the end of t...

As you know, thanks to my team at work, I've had something of a crash course in online dating over the last few months.  Because peop...

No. I went to the gym this evening for a swim.  I arrived feeling smug already after cycling past enormous queues of people stuck in tr...

The guys in my team at work are so young - mostly in their early 20s - that they simply do not have the same frame of reference as me and f...