I’m going out, I may be a while…

I’ve been to Sheffield, and chose to buy my railway ticket on-line to make it extra efficient.Then 4 days or so before the trip an email tells me that there will be a strike on the day I am traveling: the Sunday. So I go online again to find out exactly what is ‘closed’ and what is not. Journeys further north than England into Scotland looked to be shut. Perhaps the Scots had closed off the border. However, the line from Cheltenham to Sheffield was green for go. There was no mention of money back and my ticket specified that I … Continue reading I’m going out, I may be a while…

My Little Red Book: Glossary

You can get copies of my latest oeuvre from The Suffolk Anthology Bookshop in Cheltenham. The Suffolk Anthology’s Website Here’s what the place looks like: and here’s what the book looks like: It’s not a massive tome, and it’s not a massive price £4-50 to you, from the shop. Go in there, you can browse a load of lovely books and have coffee. Here’s where to find it in deeply respectable Cheltenham.     I hope you find it! And to find out what it’s all about then please take a look right here: Glossary : A Collection of Gloucestershire … Continue reading My Little Red Book: Glossary

Supermarket stare, it’s that time of year again. Are you going to let it happen again? Probably.

Worth re-blogging this from the last build-up to the X word. You’ll be seeing a few of these around from about this weekend on. Have pity. It only take one trip to a Supermarket for the viewer to notice: ‘Man who’s been let loose in a supermarket with a list’. ‘Don’t come home without those items on the list that we never buy at any other time of the year’ is the order ringing around the head. Sending them on days like these is a cruelty beyond reason. They are not used to supermarkets at the best of times rarely getting … Continue reading Supermarket stare, it’s that time of year again. Are you going to let it happen again? Probably.

Knitting hair

Those of you not familiar with footballers and their needs, might not be familiar with the icon that is Wayne Rooney. A man with a footballer’s brain and not much else. He started to lose his hair when quite young and then when riches beyond reason fell at his twinkling feet. He spent a very small proportion of his new found wealth having his hair re-built and knitted back in place. He now has a reasonable rug of his own hair atop the footballer’s brain. Hence the name of this style of haircut. If you’d like a mug of this … Continue reading Knitting hair