Waiting!

Rejoice the cricket season is here, although it hasn’t really started for me. The pre season game on the 12th (today) that I was scheduled to guest in was cancelled, …

COVID-19 Diary: Week Eight

Writing this between the announcement last night from Boris, and the detail and clarification to be issued to Parliament this afternoon – which a cynic may say has given them …

COVID-19 Diary: Week Seven

Another week, with much reference to Groundhog Day, which makes little sense as aren’t most days, weeks, months “the same”. Surely we are at our most comfortable within the structure …

COVID-19 Diary: Resolutions

Much talk these days about how the world post COVID-19 will, or indeed should look: Economists discuss the demise of Globalisation, the threat of Chinese dominance as the new super …

COVID-19 Diary: Week One

The week COVID-19 got serious in the UK, but unfortunately not serious enough for many of the Great British public, who reacted in what at best can be termed variable …

Europe by bike – in 1933

On the 1st August 1933 Marion Littler began a four-week bicycle tour of Europe with her father. The Telegraph have some excellent excerpts from her touching and fascinating travel diary. …