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,...
Category: Driving
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...
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...
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...
Spitfires on the Line.
I’m in the middle of making a short series for Radio Four with producer Mary Ward-Lowery about a series of journeys we’re taking along the line drawn by Prof. Danny Dorling of Sheffield University...
Puch Maxi Moped, tit rub (or tit-rub), triple cooked chips.
Once again. I’ve been looking at the search terms whereby people find this site. Luckily, the most popular search term is Ian Marchant, and the various permutations thereof. But what fascinates me is the...
Good weekend so far, touch wood.
We drove to Cambridge yesterday to pick up some stuff, and on the way I bought the Radio Times and i, both of which had favouable things to say about the psycho-geography show on...
Moped Lads
I’m not sure that I’m supposed to give away what future shows in the Radio Four series ‘The Completists‘ are actually about… but here’s some oblique clues as to the subject of the next...
The Presteigne One
On the morning of Thursday 17th of June, I was having a bit of a lie-in. I’d been at an all day meeting in Birmingham on the day before, and had finished the meeting...
Soft on bankers, soft on the causes of banking
Just back after a gig in Lancaster and an all-night bimble round some deserted Cumbrian motorway service stations. I put 450 un-Green miles on the clock, so I thought I’d update on my unscientific...
On the road again
Sadly, I won’t be able to watch tonight’s final Prime Ministerial debate, as I’m doing a Your Dad gig in Lancaster. And then I’m going to spend the night hanging out at Killington Lake...
Dreadful Old Man
When old Perry Venus and I were out doing The Longest Crawl, we met a lot of lovely people. One rosy-cheeked old gentleman who we met in a Worcestershire cherry orchard could not have...
Middle England – an entirely unscientific poll
Today I drove from Presteigne to Perry Barr in North West Birmingham, a drive I make at least once a week. It’s a very beautiful drive, until you reach the M5 just outside Droitwich,...
Funeral for a friend
Yesterday, I went down to Newbury for John Fairfax‘s funeral. John Moat gave the funny and almost unbearably poignant opening tribute. Moat and Fairfax were Arvon‘s co-founders, and were best pals for almost as...
