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: Not too big for his very big boots
Here is an extract from an interview I conducted in September 2007.
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Brian Viner: 'Like all columnists, I'd rather be abused than ignored by my readers'
Thursday, 18 March 2010
A few years ago in these pages I related an anecdote about a young curate and a fierce dog. It was a funny tale told to me by an elderly clergyman friend who assured me that he had been that very curate, and yet by an unfortunate coincidence the same story had appeared in the Independent's property section just the day before, presented by an estate agent as having happened to him.
Brian Viner: Pity poor Beckham. Actually, don't
Tuesday, 16 March 2010
All good things come to an end. This one might be timed fortuitously
Brian Viner: 'I saw a mouse so large, it may even have been a small you-know-what'
Thursday, 11 March 2010
As a letter to The Independent pertinently pointed out earlier this week,when has there ever been a case of a human-being being hurt by a mouse? This follows the brouhaha over the revelation that most West End theatres are riddled with the little critters – except, no doubt, for the St Martin's Theatre, home of The Mousetrap.
Brian Viner: The name game: from Gerulaitis to Bilyaletdinov via Goolagong
Saturday, 6 March 2010
The Last Word
Brian Viner: Our in-joke barely makes us laugh now. It's just an instinctive one-liner
Thursday, 4 March 2010
Harry Secombe used to sing that if he ruled the world, every day would be the first day of spring, and on Monday, as I motored up the A49 to Ludlow under an intense blue sky, lambs skipping through meadows sparkling with the last of the overnight frost, I knew just where dear old Harry was coming from.
Brian Viner: Bridge must put out flames of fury before he's consumed
Saturday, 27 February 2010
The Last Word
Brian Viner: We have now been in the country for as long as we ever lived in the city
Thursday, 25 February 2010
This summer it will be eight years since we moved to Docklow, north Herefordshire, from Crouch End, north London.
Brian Viner: 'Villages and their pubs seem to have volatile marriages these days'
Thursday, 18 February 2010
There is much wailing and gnashing of teeth here in north Herefordshire – at least among those of us who valued The Bell at Yarpole for its reliably fine food – at the news that it's changing hands as the previous management has pulled le plug.
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