I've got a new blog project which will start in 2012, so this one is a stopgap one-year only affair.
The idea is to list 52 things in a bunch of categories by the end of the year. I'm not even sure what the categories are yet, but if I start listing something, it's going to have to be something I can get 52 down in however much of the year remains.
So, the first category up is books. I don't read any more. Well, I read a bit, but nothing like what I used to. I used to read voraciously. So, I want to read, on average, one book a week this year.
Book 1/52: Peter Purves "Here's One I Wrote Earlier"
Ok, let's be clear - this was an impulse pickup from a clearance bookshop. Peter Purves was there in the background of my childhood from his 10-year stint on Blue Peter (as part of the programme's golden age, along with John Noakes, Valerie Singlepersonwhatrumours and Lesley Judd).
It was only much, much later that I found out Purves had originally been an actor, and had played a companion in the early days of Doctor Who.
Do we learn much about the inner man? Maybe not. Is it a mildly diverting autobiography until it gets into the Crufts years? Yep.
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