And a bottle of rum?
I’ve never pursued sailing as a hobby, which is odd when you consider that I’m a sailor’s daughter, but I spent my childhood enjoying landlubber activities and the open sea, despite being on the...
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Although I’ve read The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings more times than I can count, I wouldn’t exactly class myself as a massive Tolkien fan – I’ve never read more than a few chapters of The...
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History I stopped enjoying history lessons when the lessons stopped being about people. Well, my GCSE and A-Level teacher didn’t help matters either, but a subject that had hitherto fascinated me...
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Kittens! Horatio goes outside for the first time (18 October 2007) Come on, admit it, you can’t resist. Or if you can, you have a heart of stone. Kindle I keep to-ing and fro-ing on the idea of an...
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n+1 The formula for dictating the minimum number of bikes a person should own, n being the existing number. Having recently doubled the number of wheels in the shed (a Marin hybrid and an Orbea road...
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I’ve been raiding a friend’s bookshelves of late and have been gorging myself on cycling books, mainly about touring and seeing the world, though she’s been slowly steering me towards autobiographies,...
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I believe that in the past, I may have grumbled about publishers and their Very Annoying Habit of changing the design / size of books midway through a series. Grrrr. Well, I think I’ve stumbled across...
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