Month: July 2007

  • Tour de France – The Grand Depart

    Finally this weekend, the Tour de France arrived in London. I love cycling, and I love the Tour, which has become an important part of my summer of sport for many years now starting when Channel 4 used to cover it. Channel 4 long gave up on showing much over the summer except reality trash.…

  • Prologue Start List

    Before I head off into town, I thought I’d share this, which I made to watch riders as they go past. It’s a list of start times, rider numbers and names. I could find names and start times, and names and numbers, but not all three together. So a quick bit of Excel has left…

  • Alan Johnston Released

    Such wonderful news.

  • The Thick Of It

    I love The Thick Of It, and I’ve just been watching tonight’s new hour long episode in which we discover which “nutter” is going to stand forward for leadership of the party. Cracking swearing as ever. But can someone tell me why we had to have twenty minutes of it – the opposition’s point of…