With all the brouhaha surrounding Gordon Ramsey not catching fish and Bear Grylls not sleeping under stars, I still can’t understand how the red tops get away with irresponsible and misleading “journalism”. There’s recently been alleged reports that a Great White Shark was spotted off the Cornish coast and The Sun had blurry footage [...]
Archive > July 2007
Fallen Warrior
It’s the day after Tough Guy Nettle Warrior. If I didn’t know this because it was in my diary then I’d know it by looking at the amount of search results that have hit this site over the course of the day. Most of them are looking for pictures or for information about [...]
Opening the Seventh Seal
Just the other day I was surprised to find that Ingmar Bergman was still alive. He more or less retired from making films more or less about 25 years ago, Fanny and Alexander being the last major film he directed (with the exception of some direct to TV films). It struck me as [...]
Spotlight
I think that DVD Spot, a site where you can keep a record of all DVDs that you own/have watched/have lent out/want to buy or plan to watch, is going to be a site I spend altogether too much time on. I’ve only added a few titles to my “Owned” list and realise that [...]
Creature Feature
The latest film to be garnering strong interest is known only as Cloverfield. Or Slusho. Or 1-18-08. The reason for this buzz is because of an untitled trailer (which you can see in glorious quicktime here) that appeared before the US release of Transformers.
The trailer shows a leaving party for [...]
100km Twitter
I twittered while I walked. This is how it happened:
Sat 14th July 08:06 – And so it begins. 100km to go!
Sat 14th July 12:47 – Chicken wraps for lunch at checkpoint 2. Lovely.
Sat 14th July 20:33 – Half way. Welcome supper of bean casserole. 50km to go
Sun 15th July 00:27 – Just left checkpoint 6 [...]
28 hours and 55 minutes
That’s how long it took my team to walk the 100km of the Oxfam Trailwalker this weekend.
We set out from Queen Elizabeth Country Park near Petersfield in Hampshire at 8am on Saturday night and walked along the South Downs Way for a day and a night and arrived at Brighton race course just before 1pm [...]
Trailwalker 2007 Countdown
On saturday, I will be endeavouring to walk 100km (about 62 miles) in under 30 hours.
After my training walk last week, 30 miles (near as damn it) in the rain, the dark and the cold, I realised how hard it’s likely to be next weekend. To be honest, I’m not 100% certain [...]
Good luck Aquaasho!
Aquaasho is in Cauterets (which only sounds like a medical condition affecting the eyes) in France this weekend, running for Ireland in the European Mountain Running Championships. Here’s wishing her the best of luck!
1000 Films
Last week, the Guardian did a series called “1000 films to watch before you die”. They’ve now published the list on their website (although rather than give you a useful tick list or spreadsheet or whatever, they’ve divided it up alphabetically on different pages). The list was come up with by, well, actually, [...]
