Julian Cole

JULIAN COLE has offered a few recipes for bread rolls in this column, and he finishes with a French take on this old favourite.

ONCE in the city of Bristol there was a boy of three years old. Early one morning he fell from a first-floor bedroom window, a window painted shut, so how it opened nobody ever could say. The boy stood up and rang the doorbell, blood dripping from his injured head.

IS THE BBC biased? Yes, of course it is – depending on who you ask. Those on the right insist the BBC is a left-wing plot, while those on the left say the Corporation slavishly follows an agenda set by right-wing national newspapers.

JULIAN COLE tries a veg-box service with a difference, in that each box contains all you need to make three meals for two people.

WELL, that didn't go as expected. A stalemate squabble of an election had been predicted by almost everyone. No one party was going to win, according to anyone who could be bothered to offer an opinion (including this columnist). And in the end everyone was wrong.

THIS is the political day on which politics cannot be mentioned. So instead this column will walk the distance between Dorset and London. According to the makers of Far From The Madding Crowd, this is 200 miles, about the same measure as that between the capital and York.

JULIAN COLE follows the tourist trail to Bowness for one night only and finds plenty to enjoy indoors and out.

RETURNING to York from a day out in London, we called in at a foodie café near King's Cross, where the owner had accosted in the morning, telling us they were now open in the evening.

THE executive who has decided that York Art Gallery will charge visitors when it reopens in August told this newspaper: “We’ll be interested to see the reaction.” Well, here goes.

SEASICK Steve shambles on, home-made guitar in hand, and a warm cheer raises the roof. Behind him a giant screen shows his face and that remarkable beard that must stretch to his belly-button.