Tim Dowling: I’m huge in Ireland, but the cat couldn’t care less
by The Guardian
The Guardian— Invasive feline attention has left me seriously sleep-deprived, but I have appointments with Irish radio – and my wife’s diaryIt is 11.30am and I am sitting in my office shed, yawning. I have not slept well, because the cat’s attentions have reached a new level of intensity: it leaps on to the bed at 3am and wakes me by blocking my nostrils with its paw. When I pretend to remain asleep, it tries to push my eyelids up, one and then the other. This is ridiculously invasive, but the cat seems to...
New York Daily News—Knicks HC Tom Thibodeau on not being Coach of the Year finalist: ‘I couldn’t care less about that’. Knicks head coach Tom Thibodeau, who led an injury-riddled roster to its first 50-win season since the 2012-13 season, wasn’t voted in as a top-3 Coach of the Year candidate.
The Scottish Sun—I’m a proud cougar – trolls say I’m ‘damaged goods’ but I can’t get rid of my young dates and I’m richer than them. AGE might be just a number but women often are shamed for dating someone younger than them. One proud cougar even revealed that she been called ‘damaged goods’ by trolls, but that hasn’t stopped he
The Guardian—How do you describe the view to someone who can’t see? I couldn’t even do justice to a canal towpath. A day with some blind and partially sighted walkers has shown me how much I barely notice – and how hard it is to find the right wordsHow many shades of green are there? Whatever the answer may be, I soon ran out of words to describe them. I was walking north along the Grand Union canal, trying and failing to adequately describe what I could see, to a friend who couldn’t. This was Dave Heeley, ultra-runner, who in 2008 became the first blind person to run seven marathons on seven continents in...