This heading is misleading. There are no other rhyming cities we’ve been to recently unfortunately. However, on the weekend of the 23/24 September, I went to York for a work training weekend. I bunked off Saturday night and met James in York city for the night, and then we spent Sunday wandering the streets .
The […]
The weekend just past was a marvellous long weekend, with perfect weather for relative hunting (hounds and rifles optional). I took James to meet my family in Newcastle. I think it’s a loose connection genetically, but it’s definitely a close connection emotionally, starring my Uncle Peter as the grandfather we never had . At 85, […]
Outdoor cinema in Australia means:
- picnic blanket
- mozzie repellant
- cheap wine that tastes like the cardboard it is bought in
- cold chicken
- something to shield the screen, so that the sun (still high in the sky at 8pm) doesn’t bleed out the colour in the screen
- soft grass
- ants nibbling at your bare ankles
- a radio somewhere playing all Cold Chisel’s Greatest Hits
Outdoor […]
After many, many months of waiting, I can finally proudly announce that my first short story published in a real, solid magazine is available! My story ‘Martin(s)’ was chosen for the Personal Space issue of a very cool American magazine called SHERBERT Magazine. James received a copy of their last issue for his birthday last […]
Well. It feels like so much has happened in the last couple of months. Those on my email list will know the craziness that has happened in the last couple of weeks, so I won’t go into it here. Instead I’m going to focus on happier things. Like whether or not Nudie drinks are […]
If you’re bored on a Sunday (and you happen to live in London or Bristol), then why not spend the afternoon ‘Banksy Hunting’? Banksy is a superb graffiti artist, who stencils spray-painted images of acute political wit and vision onto public areas. He occasionally signs his work, but often doesn’t, but his style usually involves […]
The long weekend presented a great chance to explore areas of London we were yet to traverse. Sunday we launched ourselves on Richmond Park, a nice stroll out of Richmond town centre. Richmond would have been quite nice and easy to get to, if the trains hadn’t been done and the buses didn’t take a […]
I thought I had come to terms with being colour-blind. I discovered it quite by accident a couple of years ago. Our local paper was running a series called ‘How The Body Works,’ and on this day they were running a segment on the eye. They had a couple of Ishihara tests. I stared and […]
Our holiday was, in many ways, a tour of different countries allegiances and reactions to the wonderful sport of football (or ‘soccer’). It has struck me as worthy of blogging about. So I did. And have.
In Australia, being a fan of football means the following:
1) TVs hidden in dark corners of pubs, with the sound low […]
1) Catching The Bus - Finding
Before heading from Victoria Train Station to Victoria Coach station, be sure to pack plenty of water, crackers, comfy footwear and maybe some overnight gear, in case you get too tired to carry on and are forced to fight the homeless for the warmest phone booth to spend the night. Upon […]