Diversionary Tactics
Of all the improbable developments: I have this month turned into a genuine gym bunny. I have long harboured a very deeply buried ambition to be a good runner. I suspect this aspiration has its roots...
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When You Go There, They Have To Take You In
My younger brothers are here. They’re downstairs, right now, in that comatose, sweaty state they call sleeping. And they smell and seem too big and ungainly and make lots of noise and have an immense...
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Saturday night’s alright for chicken wings and a chunky-knit cardy
Well, obviously. You know, I thought I loved Saturday when it was the only day in the week I had a chance to stay in bed beyond 6am. Now I’m up feeding at 5.45 regardless, Saturday has become the only...
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Fiction crushes I have had, in order of appropriateness
Mildly odd: Adam Dalgliesh (via BBC) I LIKE A MAN WHO KNOWS HIS WAY AROUND A MURDER SCENE. Dalgliesh doesn’t have my heart like Hercule Poirot does, but he cuts a much more dashing figure in forensic...
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Harry Potter and my teenaged life
‘No story lives unless someone wants to listen. The stories we love best do live in us forever. So whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you...
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All the Feelings I Had During Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, in Order
Jamie Parker as Harry Potter. Photo: Manuel Harlan WARNING: this post contains the sort of mild, vague-detail spoilers that you can find in any of the newspaper reviews that came out this week. You may...
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