Every once in a while I have an adventure so peculiar, I feel compelled to talk to you about it. Today marks the 150th anniversary of the Tube, […]
Category: Activity
Thing 552: Be inspired to do some sport
Here follows a salutary lesson in what can happen when you allow the Olympic spirit to inspire your generation to actually do some sport. In July I ran […]
Thing 552: Stage your own Olympic Torch relay before the Paralympics
I don’t know about you, but I for one am deeply tired of all this muttering that the Olympics have finished. No, no, no. This is the intermission […]
Thing 778: Watch an Olympic event in person
My mother vaguely rebuked me about the blog the other day. “People can’t do all the things you have done. They can’t watch the Olympic Opening Ceremony, so […]
Enjoy the finest day to be alive in London: See the Torch, visit South Africa House and Watch the Olympic Games Opening
“Are you absolutely sure the best way to do this isn’t watching it at home on a 46″ screen?” said spouse, as we evaluated our options to watching […]
Episode Nine: last of the big six, and reflections on the second semi-final
“Now I am become Death, the destroyer of Eurovision hopes and dreams.” That’s what Julius Robert Oppenheimer might have said if he had my record on predicting who […]
Thing 698: Visit the Big Egg Hunt
These days, it seems mandatory that central London will be overtaken by charity arty objects: first it was cows, then elephants, then eggs. For six weeks or thereabouts […]
Thing 152: St Patricks Day in London Part One – Watch Sport
I may have been born in Merrie Olde Englande, but technically I am Irish, having had a Irish father and a half Irish mother, and a complete squadron […]
Thing 972: hear a 41 gun salute
Last Monday, I had a moment of terrible clarity, which will have significant and long lasting consequences for me for the next eight months. On the Monday in […]
Thing 728: Discover Street Art
Street art is a curious phenomenon indeed. I knew nothing about it other than what I had learned from the media: a film called ‘Exit through the Gift […]