Catch the Wave: Pre-Order The Breaking Wave by Ian Marchant
It’s been much too long since I did a blog post, but I could not let this moment pass without sharing something exciting with you. On 18 September, my new book The Breaking Wave...
Author: Ian Marchant
The Turtledove. An Extract from One Fine Day, with Singing.
This is a slightly different draft of the edited version that appears in the book, One Fine Day, published by September Books Buy Here! https://septemberpublishing.org/product/one-fine-day/ Music was only my third love, after girls and...
Goodbye Pie Fans, but then very soon, Hello New Book Enthusiasts
First of all, a note on football. I did not finish Ian’s Big Fat FA Cup Challenge. You might imagine that it wasn’t that demanding a fundraiser, but in the end, it was. En...
Fourth Qualifying Round Report
Emirates FACup 4th Qualifying Round, 15/10/2022, ARMCO Stadium, Solihull Solihull Moors 1 – Basford United 0 Att. 1058 Pie, 3/10 When we meet friends, or pals, or acquaintances – in fact, pretty much anybody,...
Ian’s FACup Challenge, 3rd Qualifying Round Report
Emirates FACup 3rd Qualifying Round, October 1st Basford United 1 -1 Boston United Replay, Tuesday 4th October, Basford win on penalties. I have been suffering from Bad Faith. I’ve been working on a book...
Second Qualifying Round report
September 17th, 2022, Emirates FACup Second Qualifying Round, Trade Tyres Community Stadium, Brownfields Road, Lichfield. Lichfield City 0 – Boston United 4. Att 704 Pies: 7.59 A few years ago I read somewhere (can’t...
First Qualifying Round Report
September 3rd, 2022, Emirates FACup First Qualifying Round, Trade Tyres Community Stadium, Brownfields Road, Lichfield. Lichfield City 2, Stourport Swifts 2. Att. 162 September 6th, 2022, Emirates FACup First Qualifying Round Replay, Walshes Meadow,...
Fun for Some; Episode One
Available Here! In 2007, having moved back to Radnorshire after 17 years away, ten of them in Lancaster, I got a call from an old schoolpal of my daughters, asking if I’d like to...
Post Extra-Preliminary and Preliminary Round Reports.
I should say right at the start that following a bit I did about Ian’s Big Fat FA Cup Fundraising Challenge on BBC Hereford and Worcester, the directors of Stourport Swifts paid the biggest...
Ian’s Big Fat FA Cup Fundraising Challenge
I expect when you first heard I had incurable prostate cancer, incurable due to its involvement with my bones, you thought, ‘Oh no!, I bet he’s going to try to raise money for Macmillan‘....
An Open Letter to Fay Jones, MP for Brecon and Radnor.
Dear Ms Jones, I’m sure you will be sorry to hear that I currently have Covid, which gives me extra time to follow the situation in Ukraine, and to feel the frustrations of impotence....
Quitting Anti-vaxxer enabling Spotify
If Neil Young and Joni Mitchell are quitting Spotify because of the platform offered to anti-vax truther Joe Rogan, then so am I. But how can I replace it, and save my carefully manicured...
The Song of Rhulen
This is ‘Rhulen’, as displayed in Rhulen Church, in Radnorshire. This post is really just to share this lovely tune, in the hope that someone will enjoy playing it, and maybe try writing some...
My courageous, yet futile, battle against prostate cancer
It is traditional, for writers of blogs which have lain dormant for a while and who have decided to start posting again, to apologise for their slackness when they finally get around to putting...
St Asaph, Patron saint of illegal parking.
Last Friday, 24/01/02020, I had an enjoyable trip over to see Paul Williams in Cardigan/Aberteifi, to talk about the forthcoming launch of the Radio Free Radnorshire podcast, and how to keep m’website moving through...
Glasson Dock Yacht Rock
I’ve never posted a link to this stuff before, mostly because although this website is almost 20 years old, I’ve always been slow on the uptake, even as I’ve been ahead of the curve....
