Alex James

Alex James

Recovered rock’n’roller Alex James has left his Blur days behind and now lives on a farm with his wife, their three children, some sheep and a lot of cheese. His autobiography of rock excess, Bit of a Blur, was published in 2007.

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Alex James: Goodbye, 'Star Wars', hello, Florence

There has been just one CD in the car CD player for the past two and a half years. I've got about a million songs in my phone but I like listening to music in the car, and in the car there is a choice of just 14 songs. That seems to be enough.

Recently by Alex James

You don't want to startle them, but they will back off if you keep your nerve...

Alex James: What to do when confronted by a bull

Thursday, 26 August 2010

When it comes to the countryside, despite all I've learned. I still rank as an idiot, a novice

Bats provide thought-provoking evening entertainment

Alex James: What a shame to miss bat man's visit

Wednesday, 18 August 2010

The trouble with leaving the farm is that it always means missing something.

Is it worth measuring the heat of chillis if they are so hot they are unpleasant? TOM PILSTON

Alex James: Chillis, cheese and matters of taste

Wednesday, 11 August 2010

Notebook: The Scoville scale, for measuring the heat of chillis, has been in the news recently

Alex James: Wonderful ways to enjoy the summer

Wednesday, 28 July 2010

Notebook

Legoland: a great place to keep the children entertained and meet performing pirates

Alex James: Three trips to make the perfect summer

Wednesday, 21 July 2010

Notebook

In need of someone to breathe life into it? Hastings, with its 'hopeless' pier

Alex James: Sometimes, I long to be beside the sea

Wednesday, 14 July 2010

I landed, blinking through lack of sleep, for a three-day job, a fashion shoot in Hastings. Hastings is the other end of the world from the Cotswolds, not just the wrong side of London, another country altogether.

Alex James, right, performs with Damon Albarn during Blur's Glastonbury gig last year. He just touched the same heights playing ukelele in front of 200 farmers

It's a jungle out there in my garden

Wednesday, 23 June 2010

Alex James: A farm is a big hungry beast that needs to be fed decisions constantly. Otherwise it bites. It gets easier not to make bad decisions as time goes on.

Pizza perfection, here I come

Wednesday, 16 June 2010

Forty acres of wheat rising in the middle distance behind the cheese factory: I worked out a little while back that with the wheat and the cheese situation in hand I was in control of two of the three vital ingredients for making my favourite thing in the world, from scratch: All I needed for the perfect pizza now was a source of tomatoes.

Oilseed rape plants in bloom near Tetbury, in Gloucestershire. Rapeseed (Brassica napus) has become one of the most popular crops in the UK because of its ease of cultivation

Alex James: The rape of England

Wednesday, 9 June 2010

Notebook: The footpath that links the village on the top of the hill with the woods at the bottom cuts right through the middle of a vast field, the only big field in that vicinity.

As scary as it gets: being in the woods after dark

Alex James: My irrational fear of the woods at night

Wednesday, 2 June 2010

I inadvertently discovered a new adrenaline sport a couple of weeks back: probably the oldest one of all – running through the woods at night.

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