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Parkrun 100
Recently I laced up my Brooks Glycerin and took the Tube a couple of stops north to run my one-hundredth Parkrun. I deliberately picked Tooting Common, as that’s where I ran my first back in May 2018....
View ArticleWhat if? 2
Following on from XKCD, “What if?,” and “How to” comes Randal Munroe’s “What if? 2.” It’s another collection of silly questions with scientific, humorous answers. Examples include “Could you eat a...
View ArticleWilt on High
“Wilt on High” is another one of those books that I read because a number of people said “if you like Douglas Adams, you’ll enjoy Tom Sharpe.” This book was picked arbitrarily by virtue of being...
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How Britain Broke The World
Popular opinion is that the whole of the UK was against Blair’s invasion of Iraq. Over a million people marched in London. I wasn’t one of them. I’m not sure that I was as politically engaged then as I...
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Escape
Marie Le Conte is one of my favourite panelists on the Oh God What Now podcast. I thought I should make an effort to read one of her books, hence “Escape” (affiliate link). It is about how Millennials...
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Unsociable Christmas Tree (Part 2)
Back in 2020 I talked about my Raspberry Pi powered Christmas Tree. Today’s blog delves into what I’ve done this year. Previously, I decided that setting up a web server on which family members could...
View ArticleThe Last White Man
This book (affiliate link) was being promoted by my local council as part of a reading campaign. I’m not sure I would have picked it up otherwise, which, despite my misgivings, would have been a shame....
View ArticleDepraved New World
It’s difficult to come up with a better explanation for what this book is like than the description on the back: Depraved New World (affiliate link) is a worryingly funny collection, which captures...
View ArticleReading 2023
In a turn of events that surprised even me, I managed to exceed my reading target of twelve books this year. I managed a decent mix of fiction and non-fiction. More politics than usual, but even that...
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The Romantic
William Boyd is one of my favourite authors. He specialises in doorstop novels that document the entire life of an interesting individual. His most famous is probably “Any Human Heart†and “The...
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