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…

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

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.

My recent obsession with men’s haircuts has resulted in a poster. I’m on to profiles now and more drawings will follow. I’m hoping to make the poster available as a print in due course together with individual prints of some of the haircuts too. They will be on my other site quite soon. I hope you enjoy them. Continue reading Hair today and Hair tomorrow…

The look of surprise is more like concern that what little of his hair is left is about to leave. How odd that some people with challenged hair think that if you let it grow long and inevitably whispy it will hang on. Unlikely.   Continue reading Hanging on

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

Sun was shining throughout the day and the planned walk was started. The light was amazing and the walk relatively easy apart from the mud underfoot. I’d like to tell you where we went but shall not! I’d like it to remain as undiscovered as it is today. I’ve known the area for years having lived there for fourteen or so, some years ago. I know the routes and the walks. today it looked at it’s very best. In the Spring this area is full of wild flowers and as far as I know, has never had any chemicals near … Continue reading Should we have bought a lottery ticket?

Three roughs here of work for Cotswold Life Magazine. I’m doing a series called Cotswold Wild Life and these are some of the creatures in it. One tends to do the first rough without really being overly concerned if it works or not and then the secret, if it is one, is perhaps to try and keep it with the same energy as the rough. Miserable Farmers do inhabit the Cotswolds, they probably inhabit everywhere but tend to keep a low profile. I’ll publish the final drawing for this when it’s been published. My Lord and Lady are rarely seen … Continue reading I hope the finals will have the same energy.