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Adrian Chiles

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7 days ago

I did a road journey in England avoiding motorways – and discovered a whole new country | Adrian Chiles

Aston Clinton, Weedon, Maids Moreton – motorways bypass so many fascinating places. Maybe it is this that makes us an island of strangers

I learned a lot driving to Hinckley in Leicestershire. I had s…

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I’ll never play golf like Rory McIlroy. But maybe he can teach me how to live with my mistakes | Adrian Chiles

I need to stop dwelling on everything I get wrong, from sending my ball into the drink to squeezing the wrong bottom

Whether you’re into sport or not, there’s wisdom to be mined from it. Once you’ve p…

56 days ago

Where have all the headphones gone on public transport? The noise is eating into my soul | Adrian Chiles

Just one antisocial fellow traveller can ruin a journey. Is it a giant two-fingered gesture to the rest of the world?

Some time in the early years of the last decade, a friend and I travelled by train…

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Remote controls, tumble dryers, documentaries … do we have to make everything so complicated? | Adrian Chiles

I’m not saying everything was better in the good old days – but a lot of things really don’t need the latest bells and whistles

I was once trying to get a television idea commissioned about a subject …

3 months ago

My dad died a year ago – and a photo of him on Google Street View brought me up short | Adrian Chiles

A friend sent me the image by surprise and I felt a lot of things very strongly: love, upset, amusement, pleasure and anger

An old friend sent me a photo that caused me to stop whatever I was doing. I…

4 months ago

Why do so many people dream of being dog groomers? Haven’t they seen the toll it can take? | Adrian Chiles

Hour after hour of washing, trimming and blow-drying unwilling pups is not my idea of fun – or my dog’s

Lots of people like the idea of grooming dogs for a living. Some survey sought to identify the …

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