One Fine day
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...
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,...
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...
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,...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
You might think you know who your family are, and where you’re from, but a few days diddling about on the internet can turn what you knew, what you thought you knew, inside out.I...
We have a puppy. Her name is Peggy.She is about 14 weeks old. She shits on the floor. Here is a picture of her on Wentes Meadow, Presteigne, where dogs are free to shit,...
My idea in renaming the blog bit of the website has root in my new (still in production) book, ‘A Hero For High Times’, and it is, at least in part, a reaction to...
It’s good, I always think, to have a picture at the top of a blog post. I looked online for ‘migraine aura’, and found some excellent pictures which very accurately capture the experience; so...
I have been waiting to read Olivia Laing’s ‘To the River’ for a year; I couldn’t afford the hardback when I saw it in the summer in the Penrallt Gallery Bookshop in Machynlleth, but...
