The Head Girl of St Bee’s: Alys Chatwyn, The Epworth Press
If Chatwyn had been happy to stick with ‘St Bee’s College’ - a school characterised as a hive, and its girls ‘bees’ ‘drones’ etc - that would be one thing. But( Read more... )
I've been following the athletics world championships in Beijing via the BBC for the past 10 days, either by watching the night sessions live or via the highlights programme. What will I do without it
( Read more... )
I've kept meaning to post about the US Open. It's been strange not to be able to watch it, but to have to check up online and on sports headlines to see what's been happening. Highlight clips aren't the same! It was particularly heartening to see Robson building on her Olympics and having such a good run in the first week. Getting beaten by a
( Read more... )
Last week, I was forced to watch the athletics as the tennis isn’t being aired on Freeview (so I'm only haphazardly aware of which women’s seeds are out and have to take others’ words for Djokovic, Murray et al’s form). I use 'forced' very loosely. I only really got into the athletics world championships after they’d changed presenters - I did see
( Read more... )