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Well I don’t know about you but I thought Martin Freeman did a brilliant job of the Book of the Week reading on Radio 4. For a kick off, anyone who can make me sound plausible has to be pretty good, but I thought he pitched the tone of the thing exactly right. In fact I was pretty pleased with the whole production, and I’m never pleased with anything that features me.

The book’s been serialised in the Daily Mail over the last few days too. I’ve not seen it, but I hear it’s been given a good old airing over a double page spread each time. Alarmingly though, I hear rumours that today’s edition features me superimposed onto the Bayeux Tapestry. I take it that means in a graphic in the newspaper rather than on the Tapestry itself, although with my odd-shaped body and disproportionately large head I’d probably be inconspicuous among my woven cohorts. Actually, the Bayeux Tapestry is something I’ve never seen, and now that I’ve made Harold’s journey to the Battle of Hastings (the battlefield isn’t actually in Hastings, but the Battle of Battle deosn’t sound right) I’d really love to go. Even if those cheeky Normans made it all biased, like.

I’ll be appearing on Radio 4’s Excess Baggage on Saturday, where it’ll be nice to catch up with my old pal John McCarthy again. The programme goes out at 10am.

There was a nice piece in the Irish Times at the weekend too, while I’ve also got a piece up on the Stanford’s website putting a forthright argument forward for the merits of walking. As with much of my writing, there’s lots of bluster and little in the way of coherent thought, but Stanford’s have always been good to me and my books so I was happy to oblige when they came a-knocking.

Also, I understand from my lovely friend Kerry that these website updates also appear on Facebook, so if you’re reading this there…hello! *waves*

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