Brian Viner
Brian Viner swapped London for the Herefordshire countryside, and his column ‘Country Life’ documents his attempts to chase the rural idyll. Chiefly a sports writer, he pens a weekly sports column and interview for the paper. He is the author of Ali, Pele, Lillee and Me: A Personal Odyssey Through the Sporting Seventies.
Brian Viner: Pietersen has style of original Brylcreem Boy
The Last Word: Andrew Strauss tells us that the South African origins of himself, Kevin Pietersen, Matt Prior and Jonathan Trott are "a non-issue" for England's cricketers.
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Brian Viner: 'Much as it pains me to say it, Yorkshire is the best source of unusual words'
Thursday, 5 November 2009
My friend Ian, who has lived all his 50-odd years in a village on the Herefordshire-Shropshire border, introduced us some years ago to an expression so localised that nobody I've tried it on in Leominster, eight miles down the road, understands what I'm on about.
Brian Viner: 'Up' and away with you, critics
Tuesday, 3 November 2009
There are certain films we are almost arm-locked into admiring
Brian Viner: 'I've opened fetes, named beers, judged gardens, fairy cakes and perry'
Thursday, 29 October 2009
Home And Away
Brian Viner: 'If I was going to jump out of a plane, I'd avoid Friday 13 and Halloween'
Thursday, 22 October 2009
Our 16-year-old daughter Eleanor announced to us a couple of weeks ago that she intended to do a sky-dive in aid of a Hereford-based charity called Concern Universal.
Brian Viner: 'I'm a big fan of haggis, even dished up using an old ice-cream scoop'
Thursday, 15 October 2009
My son Joe shocked us all at breakfast the other morning by asking us what kilts, bagpipes, porridge, whisky, tartan and haggis have in common, and then announcing that none of them originated in Scotland.
Brian Viner: 'Hereford is a hotbed of SAS types – although they wouldn't tell us that'
Thursday, 8 October 2009
Of all the anecdotes to treasure in Tuesday's marvellous article by my colleague Simon Usborne about 100 years of Britain's intelligence services, my favourite was probably the one about MI6 moving offices, sometime during the Cold War.
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