One ink drawing by Laura Morgans, one piece of writing by Tom Spooner, every day in October. Day One New Adventures You can find adventure everywhere – you only need to be open to it. When you’re next walking...
Category - Observations
The Bully The bully was called Boyle. Straight out of a Roald Dahl book, this hardened endomorph with his pocked-face and ratty moustache made my first few months in secondary school hell. I would dread going to school, fear the...
I waste too much time watching Netflix, but ultimately I’m okay with that. What I take umbrage with is the number of hours I waste looking for something worth watching on Netflix. I have even invented a term for it –...
The parody news outlet the Daily Mash ran a story recently that reported on a group of Texan tourists that had visited Swindon and proclaimed it ‘magical like the world of Harry Potter.’ One of the tourists summarised their...
I have just overheard a story that my dad was telling his old friend on the phone. I have never heard this particular story before. It is not a big story; it is an anecdote. A surname that jogged something in my dad’s...
When it comes to setting the mood for a night of romantic nudge-nudge wink-winking and general boudoir canoodling, music can play a vital role. Get it right and you’ll be singing in perfect harmony. Get it wrong and you’re...
We made it! One ink drawing by Laura Morgans, one piece of writing by Tom Spooner, every day in October – part five. Bangers The air was muggy with anticipation that Saturday afternoon. There were loud whispers about how these...
One ink drawing by Laura Morgans, one piece of writing by Tom Spooner, every day in October – part four. Bathtime You can imagine yourself anywhere in a bath. It doesn’t matter what is outside of the water, outside...
One ink drawing by Laura Morgans, one piece of writing by Tom Spooner, every day in October – part three. Stars For ten days, the stars had not been seen. It was not that it was cloudy nor that smog or light pollution...
One ink drawing by Laura Morgans, one piece of writing by Tom Spooner, every day in October. Goldfinger A bright buttercup yellow cassette rests on the green grass in front of an abandoned brick shelter in the corner of the Old...