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 –...
There is crying tonight. You can sense it. Somewhere beneath the rain, the sound of the rain and the water flowing over the blocked drains. It’s the saddest kind of crying – the type not meant for anyone. There is an old man...
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...
He had heard it from the butcher’s boy who had heard it from the rag and bone man. The rag and bone man had been trying to convince the butcher’s boy to buy the wheels from a perambulator he had picked up in Blissford from a...
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...
There are moments in life when we get to experience freedom. They are rare and fleeting. When they happen, you know. This is because you occupy the instant so completely that everything else disappears. All that you know, all...
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...
1. Stevie Wonder Hyde Park, London 10th July 2. Billy Cobham Trio with Donald Harrison and Ron Carter Blue Note, NYC 28th April 3. The Comet is Coming Old Malthouse, Bristol 14th October 4. Ian William Craig Cafe Kino 10th...
1. Frank Ocean – Blonde 2. Car Seat Headrest – Teens of Denial 3. Trust Fund – We have always lived in The Harolds <a href=” have always lived in The Harolds by Trust Fund</a> 4...
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...