Middle age can be tough on the hairline and murder on the waistline, but how good would you be looking after 30 or 40 years mouldering away in an attic? That was the ignominious fate that befell Action Man, the… Continue Reading →
A warm welcome and a chilled beer greeted visitors to The London Group‘s Centenary Exhibition private view at Pitzhanger Manor last week. As snow blanketed the streets of west London, the heating was cranked up a little higher in the… Continue Reading →
I try not to use this blog for promotional purposes, but I’m making an exception in the case of Standing Up for James, a memoir written by Jane Raca. It’s the story of her second son, James, who was born… Continue Reading →
As Team Sky and Bradley Wiggins have blazed a triumphant trail in the 2012 Tour de France, Neil Stevens has been involved in another type of stage race. Neil’s a keen cyclist, but he isn’t one of the participants in… Continue Reading →
The Schadenfreude factor is a lot more fun than The X Factor – and it’s a Simon Cowell-free zone. “The 70s are remembered as a golden age of pop music”, announced presenter Dominic Sandbrook in the final part of his… Continue Reading →
Don’t ask about the app. I wasn’t the first person to enquire whether Step Outside Guides would be coming soon to the iTunes Store. But it turns out that co-creator Margie Skinner has problems just navigating her way around an… Continue Reading →
Earlier this week a news report claimed that LOCOG has “barely put a foot wrong” in the run-up to the London 2012 Olympics. If you’re one of the thousands who lost out in the Great Ticketing Fiasco of 2011, you… Continue Reading →
Recently I wrote that the BBC appears to be run by a bunch of 70s obsessives with dubious taste in music. Little did I suspect that BBC2 was about to join the party and — in the words of TV… Continue Reading →
One day in the distant future, the BBC will not be run by people who are hopelessly in thrall to their 1970s childhood. (This may be around the same time that Noel Edmonds faces his own “Deal or No Deal”… Continue Reading →
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kcu0BgcVsPg&w=560&h=315] It’s a blogging dilemma: the return of a show you no longer like but just can’t stop writing about. So I’ve decided to go cold turkey and avoid The Apprentice 2012 when it returns to BBC1 tonight. This… Continue Reading →
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