One Fine Day
This morning (24/08/02019) at the Presteigne Festival, I talked for the first time about my new project, which is called, as you might have guessed, One Fine Day. So It seemed an appropriate moment...
Author: Ian Marchant
It’s only just beginning
This morning, just after 12, the news reached Elda’s Colombian Coffee House, High Street, Presteigne, that our local MP, loathsome Tory fraudster Chris Davies, had lost his seat in a recall petition. He’s upset...
It’s 5 O clock! Let’s make history!
It’s five o clock, and the petition to remove the Brecon and Radnorshire MP Chris Davies is now closed, The count starts at 10am tomorrow (Friday 21st) and the result will be known by...
How many miles, how many?
I know of two bilingual signposts that show Leominster with its Welsh name, Llanllieni. There’s one up on the A44 by the Fforest Inn, and the one in this picture on the Presteigne by-pass....
Mixtape. A Love Story, with five songs.
Martin is driving south out of Birmingham on the M40, in a white S-reg Hyundai Accent which he bought on e-bay with pretty much his last three hundred pounds. He hopes it will survive...
Why All the Stations was/is special
Geoff Marshall and Vicki Pipe, sickened by 2016, resolved to do something, anything. The thing they resolved to do was visit all of the UK’s stations over the spring and summer of 2017, and...
Four Point Plan.
We’ve just had the first piece of General Election tat in the post, and it’s from local estate agent and current Tory incumbent, Chris Davies. At least, I think it’s from him. There’s a...
Real, Decent, never Ordinary. My Ranting CV
I wonder what Mr. Nigel Farage meant in his speech at the UKIP victory rally that ‘Leave was a win for Real Decent Ordinary People?’ Does he mean working class English white people, I’ve...
The Good Guys
OK, I’m not sure this is going to go down well, but I’m going to give it a try. Today I saw a couple of videos online featuring supporters of Brexit. One was this...
Popular, but hard to get.
After five years work on a book about the British Freaks (told through the person of my great good friend Bob Rowberry), I’m nearly there. Nearly, but not quite I’ve still got questions. In...
Carr’s Herefordshire, with extras….
This is JL Carr’s map of Herefordshire (taken in a winter window, so there’s a bit of glare.) Readers of this blog will remember the post earlier this year, where I wrote about solving...
All Souls Day
Just been to church. I live opposite St. Andrews Church in Presteigne, one of 4 Church of England churches in Wales. (It’s a long story, with which I won’t bore those readers uninterested in...
Old Chas Ambler
Yesterday, Saturday 5th of September, we buried my dear old friend and partner in crime, Christopher Charles Ambler, known to the world as Chas. We buried him in a remarkable ceremony at a remarkable...
J.L. Carr and Stocken Farm
I am a long time fan of the great English novelist J.L. Carr. The title of my novel ‘The Battle for Dole Acre’ is an homage to his ‘Battle of Pollock’s Crossing’, and I...
