Clik here to view.
On the Lash, Leeds Style
Visits to Leeds always mean some sort of exciting ale trail along with some great company. This time I had seen Tony Naylor’s timely best Leeds craft beer article in the Guardian, but my Uncle had...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Second City Scenes
After nearly a decade of starting my week on a Tuesday, I now have to prepare myself to face the greatest horror of the working man – Monday mornings. A few weeks to go before the start of my new job...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Oxford Blues
Following on from the first of my countdown to working Mondays blog posts, which saw me eating pork pies in drizzly Birmingham, my antepenultimate Monday off meant dragging the Ewing up the M40 to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
I Don't Like Mondays - 7Bone Edition
Finally the day had come - my last Monday unshackled by the horror of work had arrived (I had spent the penultimate Monday gorging rare steak and sticky toffee pudding, washed down with rioja with my...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Winner, Winner
Once, long long ago and suffering from a hangover that Pot Noodles and Monster Munch were simply not going to shift, we were blacklisted from Pamir's Chicken in Bournemouth. True, we had commandeered...
View ArticleClik here to view.
King John the Second
Being both greedy and lazy I don't usually write about things twice (I would have also said it's because I avoid repeating myself, but some of you know me in real life...). But a recent weekend at my...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Sunday Bunday
So, it finally looks like Grandad's on the move. After nearly 89 years in Harrow and it's surrounds (discounting the 'lost' teenage years spent working in a shoe shop in Leigh-on-Sea and a stint...
View ArticleClik here to view.
64 Degrees and Tilly Gingerbread
Last week saw the Ewing's birthday and after taking her wine tasting, when she had to drive, giving her a t-shirt emblazoned with cats which, even as a avowed feline lover, she has vowed never to wear...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Hatches, Matches and (Mummy P's Cake) Dispatches
Despite the potential for unwelcome denouements, drunken confessions and the appearance of strange half cousins with wandering hands, family celebrations are great fun. And even more so when there not...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Sussex Charmers
After the veritable bun feast that was Louis' christening, Stealth, the Ewing and I carried on the adventures with our own version of Three Have Fun in a Caravan, by spending a few days in the lovely...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Canterbury Pig Tales
After spending three entertaining and educational (although not especially productive) years in this little corner of Kent, I relish coming back to dear Canters. Especially as now it's without the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Rex and Mariano
One of my happiest holiday memories on a family trip to Florida as a child wasn't meeting Mickey, or riding Space Mountain, or even being splashed by Shamu at Seaworld (these were the innocent days...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Brum Fun
I think I've had what writer's call 'block'. I ate and I ate, then I ate some more, but still the words wouldn't form (I did get a touch of indigestion, though). Slowly, as the idea of posting became...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Wheatsheaf Inn, Northleach
Ever since I was a child I've always been fascinated by Midsummer. From trips to Scandinavia to try and glimpse that mysterious midnight sun (alongside plenty of drunken singing around the bonfire,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Serendipity and the Magic Roundabout
Chance, fate, destiny, karma, whatever you want to call it, I'm not really one to subscribe to cosmic intervention. As Arnold Palmer said; 'the more I practice, the luckier I get'. However, even for...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Going Solo: Morden and Lea
Normally, I'm a pretty big fan of being left on my lonesome. As Woody Allen knows, lots of things are better on your own. I've travelled around Oz, got tattoos, got drunk (thankfully not together)...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Penny Arcades, Pint Shop and a Bun for My Trunk
Birthdays start out fun. There's parties and cake and games and hey, you can even cry if you want to. Then come the first 'milestones', where you can buy cigs (legally) and celebrate with a pint in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A Cake for the Boss and Another Celebration
Recently the Ewing and I got got hitched again. Well, more accurately, we had our civil partnership converted into a 'marriage'. Of course it would have been rude not to celebrate - despite originally...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Pigs, Pints and Prawns
Earlier this summer (yes, it is still summer) the Ewing and I finally threw out the mouldering remains of the tent that would have been best off being abandoned on the Isle of Wight after a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Bermondsey Mark III
A little while ago the Beeb showed a programme where curious cat owners strapped GPS 'cat cams' to their beloved felines and finally found out what they got up to every time they skipped out the cat...
View Article