I went to Lao… several years ago
This isn’t news, it’s just me using this blog as a scrapbook! I just rediscovered an old travelling buddy on Facebook – one of those lovely people who you spend every hour with for a few days, and then you go to London and they go to San Diego, an…
Getting nude for art
At the Big Chill festival last weekend I got the chance to get my kit off in the warm early morning sunshine with a fieldful of friendly strangers. Here we are (courtesy of someone from the Metro, spying on us from the other side of the pond) bein…
I survived two miles in the Thames!
Triathlons and all sorts of variations on the theme are just booming in the UK at the moment. Ordinary people can excel, it gives the weekly or daily exercise regime some focus, it’s competitive but also sociable, and it means you’re outdoors and …
Swimming with an Olympian
The new editor of the good old Outdoor Adventure Guide that I launched and edited until last year recently sent me on a wee assignment which involved getting into the Serpentine in Hyde Park in order to get some swimming tips from Keri-Anne Payne,…
Did you know I’m one of Hackney’s more adventurous residents?
Apparently so. Pretty chuffed that a knock-on effect of stopping the miserable commute has been that I am locally entrenched enough to be a newsworthy Hackney citizen TWICE! That’s once here for singing in public, and once here for being the perso…
Singing Elgar in Hackney
Work hard, play hard and hobby hard, I say. My latest wintertime hobby is choral singing – I am a member of the Hackney Singers, a brilliant bunch of singers who bite off seriously tough choral projects, and meet weekly in St Luke’s in Hackney to …
Someone asked my opinion…
At the London ski show staff from a new video site were asking passersby to ramble on at length, in an amateur fashion, about their experiences of working in resort. I didn’t like to show them up with my polished presenting style, so I toned it do…
Coast to coast
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What’s so good about Breckenridge?
A page for Fall-Line issue 89 on Breckenridge, Colorado village of gold nuggets, bacon and maple syrup, some sort of vicious tree-eating weevil, and bright-coloured clapboard saloons. A year after the trip, that’s the over-riding flavour left in m…
Mad Dog newsletters
Cheap deals, secret resort and a big pancake! Dear Hannah, Mad Dog has been digging about in the snow to find you some juicy bits and pieces from the ski world. Gnaw away! Top ten ski resorts Those folk at easyJet have declared that the top ten re…
