Oxford Mail | Columns

THE DISABLED SPACE: Change attitudes by example

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 10:00:00 +0000

Is your fridge door littered with magnets? Mine is; in fact 44 of them, ranging from reminders of places I have visited to a variety of messages.

LIFE LESSONS: I probably don’t allow enough time to reflect

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 10:00:00 +0000

WHAT I’M CALLED: All sorts of things, from Rector, Vicar, Rev, Father, Padre, God-man, Oi you or even simply Toby.

ON YER BIKE: Improving my stability one pose at a time

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 10:00:00 +0000

I’ve just realised that I have impaired lateral stability; to put it simply, this means I have bad balance.

THE QUIZ LEAGUE: It looks like a two-horse race

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 10:00:00 +0000

Whilst I might be tempting fate, and potentially attracting a fair amount of ridicule, last Thursday’s victories for the Six Bells (Headington) over the spirited Chequers (Chipping Norton), 73-64, and the Chester Arms (Oxford) by a solitary point (78-77) in a titanic battle with the Hatchet (Childrey), may well have turned the quest for the Premier Section crown into a two-horse race.

MAN ABOUT TOWN: Price of a perfect Valentine’s Day

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:00:00 +0000

Tomorrow, more than one billion Valentine’s cards will be sent worldwide. Most are given to parents, teenagers and, not unexpectedly, husbands and wives who, if they didn’t, would die a thousand deaths.