The Tories may be a lot more popular than Labour at the moment, but I’m not convinced they are any more fit to run the country. David Cameron had his bike knicked. He seems bewildered that this could happen when he chained it up …to a bollard! Why a bollard, why not a hedge, or [...]
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what makes a perfect birthday?
Time spent with friends. A cycle ride along the canal in clement weather. A teacake and coffee outside at a garden centre. A longboat going through bratch locks. A deliciously foamy bath. A proper tea with competing children, raucious behaviour, jelly, cheese and pineapple on sticks (served ’70′s style), and other fabulous things. A chocolate [...]
…that is forever England
I have been on something of an Oh England, my Lionheart cycle ride with my friend J. who leaves for Saudi any day now. I don’t think either of us realised we would be quite so immersed in Englishness, or rather an elegy to Englishness past, when we decided to go for a ride, but [...]
