A day in Newcastle (pet)
So, here I am in Newcastle and this is the view from my hotel room window. Twenty years after living here, I’ve been sent to report for the Telegraph on how it’s changed. The transformation is astonishing. All the tumbledown areas by the Quayside have been transformed into flats, or new business quarters, or restaurants. Or the Law Courts. There is no Disco Boat bobbing on the Tyne. Instead, on the opposite bank is the giant Baltic and the beautiful shiny Sage concert hall, which looks like some sort of oceanic shell-like creature. Read More…
Rosie Millard on a deserted beach in Miquelon, North Atlantic
It’s isolated. It’s in the North Atlantic. It’s 10,000 kilometres from the Champs Elysees. But its as French as petanque and foi gras. Rosie Millard gets intrepid in the far flung island of Miquelon, a lonely stretch of la belle France, where the Tricolor whips in a freezing cold wind and where French is spoken as properly as it is in Paris.
Hurdles we invent for ourselves
My locker key at the gym. Not so very exciting. But the key represents the fact that I have a) got to the gym and b) have got changed and have therefore c) fulfilled my aim to work out on that particular day. Which is a small triumph. Read More…
Losing my head in Paris
This is Lucien and me on the Paris Roule, otherwise known as Paris Copying London. I’m not mad on the London Eye, and I’m not mad on this one either. Read More…
The challenge facing my new shoes
These arrived today. Yes! My New Nike LunarGlide 3s. I ran 12 miles in my old LunarGlide 2s on Sunday and am worried they are so dead that I have a shin splint…so these have come in on time, but will I be able to run a half marathon in them on Sunday? All will be discovered tomorrow morning on my little practise run. It’s ridiculous but runners are SO fussy about their shoes, and secondly about their legs. Read More…
Getting new running shoes
So, four months before the Great Wall of China marathon I’m changing my running shoes. I’m going todo the Watford Half in them next Sunday but they are really dead. The only thing about this – and all you runners out there will know this – that changing your running shoes is a weird business. The new ones have to be EXACTLY the same. Even more with these, because these tired looking shoes have been amazing.
Want to take your children globetrotting?
I did. I decided it would be a great idea to take my four children, then aged 4, 6, 9 and 12, and my long-suffering husband on a trip which had only been achieved once before by the then President of France, Charles de Gaulle. This was to visit all the tiny islands and slivers of jungle which France still calls its own. I spoke schoolgirl French; the rest of the family, none at all. Read More…
Why Britain fell in love with Damien Hirst
Yes, Britain. The country which almost had a national crisis over the ‘Tate Bricks’, and thought anyone who liked art was insufferably ‘posh’. Suddenly, in the mid-1990s, contemporary art was king and the Tate Modern its new palace. Read More…
The Breakfast Show
BBC London, 07:50 Paper Review, 27th December 2011
This is an example of the paper review I often do on BBC London at 0750 in the morning; it’s such a hoot, I run in, (this sounds more impressive than it is, it’s really not far) – sit down with the papers and a cup of tea, tell them what I think, then run home again and take the kids to school. 0830 am and I’ve already digested all the news! Perfect.
[audio https://soundcloud.com/brookcottagemedia/rosie-millard-paper-review]The Romance of Manchester Airport
Here he is, the lovely Tony Livesey himself, on his eponymous Five Live show at Terminal 2 in Manchester Airport. We’re all sitting with him, that is me, Simon Calder from the Indy and Jeremy Spake from Airport fame. Read More…
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