“The Romantic poets were the prototype ramblers, and I've often found myself following in their footsteps - although perhaps not all of their footsteps since a typical walk for Samuel T. Coleridge might last two days and cover 145km.”
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It was Julie Burchill who decreed that, beyond a certain age, a man should not be seen in a leather jacket.
I've noticed that my resolutions involve me not doing stuff that I wasn't going to do anyway so here's something more positive. I'm going to retrain as a Latin teacher in a provincial public school.
It is more interesting to be compared to someone famous, because it lets you gauge what perceptions people have about your appearance.
Travel books are, by and large, boring. They lodge uncomfortably between fact, fiction and autobiography.
