Category Archives: travel

The First Ninety Minutes Are The Most Important

Posted on November 14, 2022 by S

The footballs as we know the will never be the same again, not now the English League of Premiers has stopped mid-season to allow for a World Cup to take place in Qatar. Which controversial element of that sentence would … Continue reading →

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Water Time To Be Alive

Posted on November 1, 2022 by S

This is your November Is Happening Now warning. Be careful out there. People will burn things and send explodey, colourful missiles into the sky. Men will grow moustaches. Warmth will stop visiting as often as it did in October. Shops … Continue reading →

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Shaves In The Dark…

Posted on October 9, 2022 by S

In an apparent bid to become more clicky baity and drive up those hits, the BBC website now asks dumb questions in banner headlines, underneath which come responses any one of their journalists’ pre-school children could knock out after a … Continue reading →

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You Must Fall

Posted on September 24, 2022 by S

Autumn is happening now. The guardians of the seasons kicked down Autumn’s front door, shouted it awake and dragged it reluctantly out to start doing its job of making people with respiratory diseases, like me, miserable because all too soon … Continue reading →

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Et Tu, Brute? Then Caesar Salad

Posted on August 2, 2022 by S

If your favourite months of the year are named after once-upon-a-time Roman emperors then boy are you in luck as we’ve only just finished the Julius one and have already begun the Augustus one. Amazing stuff, to acknowledge men (and … Continue reading →

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Sweet Home West Midlands

Posted on July 29, 2022 by S

All roads now lead to Birmingham. Not the one in Alabama but the original, the definite article, you might say. The West Midlands of Britain Birmingham which is where the Blinders are usually Peaky, where good things are always bostin’, … Continue reading →

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Circles Or Squares?

Posted on July 13, 2022 by S

I saw circles. And squares. And tiny white dots which danced before me like a million signifiers of lack of oxygen to the brain. Which is what happens when you chase Nicky Minge’s car down a London street in the … Continue reading →

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I Haven’t Eaten Since The Last Time I Eated

Posted on June 30, 2022 by S

Let’s go to Mars. No, not you Mr Muskrat, I really don’t think I could cope with your company for endless months in space and then endless more months on a distant planet that doesn’t even have a McDonald’s. But … Continue reading →

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The End of the Show

Posted on June 27, 2022 by S

Go home now festivalleers, go back to your suddenly less-appealing ordinary lives, back to a world where strangers are less likely to strike up an impromptu conversation but, hey, also a world in which a tofu burger doesn’t cost a … Continue reading →

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As Their Lies Wash You Down And Their Promises Rust

Posted on June 22, 2022 by S

Rail workers are using strike action to try to convince a disinterested government to give them a pay rise in line with inflation. Inflation happens to be ridiculously high but some economists argue that increases in wages do not automatically … Continue reading →

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