I sincerely love eating and drinking. I’m probably not going to stop liking it either. I’m a strong believer in the idea that a food and drink lover’s worst enemy is convenience. That’s probably the main reason that I have been thoroughly enjoying the route that feastingneverstops.com is taking me at the moment. I noticed [...]

I recall being tipsily slumped on my sofa on a wet winter night in January this year. I was trying to entertain myself by reading a vintage book on British hauntings and mysterious places. Sutton Hoo came up again and again and as I had already heard of the strange circumstances surrounding  its discovery, I [...]

Well, what better way to celebrate the Colourschool 2nd birthday than with a few vintage British postcards?! These have been sitting in a massive unordered pile in our sideboard for quite some time. They occasionally see the light of day when I fancy sending a someone a ‘thank-you’, but I really should get a proper [...]

I have just seen the new short film that Nick Livesy has produced for well-groomed cycling barons, Rapha. The film is an evocative but gritty take on the personal sacrifices of Johan Museeuw, twists, turns and history of one of the cycling calendar’s toughest races, the Paris Roubaix. Ridley Scott Associates have clearly had a [...]

Sunday was occupied by a trip to Greenham Common with some friends. It was close with a typically warm August sun poking between the  tumbling clouds. A menagerie of Crickets, insects and floating seeds made the thick air vibrate and  even though the sounds of light aircraft and grazing cattle mingled with all this, it [...]

I have no shame in admitting that I’m English (I can see my Scottish mates rolling their eyes right now when I say that… heh heh). Although, I have to say that my personal hierarchy of loyalty goes in the following order: I’m a Yorkshireman first, then I’m British and English last. But why English [...]

When the air temperature has warmed and the fields are growing rare in colour, a very fantastic sporting event takes place once a year. The Tour de France (Le Tour) has been the cornerstone of spectator sport for me since I was young enough to leave the stabilisers in the garage. As a keen (casual) [...]

It wasn’t so long ago that I used to find charity shops very difficult to handle. The smell, the diabolical selection of men’s clothes, garish glass trinkets and a thousand copies of Dodgy’s Staying Out for the Summer on CD single. Yes, it was all too much for me. I had to be in the [...]