My Twenty Season Gap From Sheffield: A Football Return
“The air coming up to the boil; rubbing up against walls and lamp-posts trying to get rid of it. Old women clack their tongues in the shade of crumbling concrete bus shelters” – Jarvis Cocker…
20 Years Ago Today: How My Life Changed Forever On Friday 26th September 2003
“What you leave behind, you don’t miss anyway” – Paul Hewson. Friday 26th September 2003. That’s twenty years ago today. Madness. This was the day when life unknowingly all changed for me. It did for…
Backpacking In England🏴: My Night At The Woughton House🏠Hotel🏨, Milton Keynes
As always, I’ll never get time to write all the stories I want to write. I had a glance at my places slept and places visited list today and they are nowhere near updated –…
Backpacking In England: Playing Footgolf⚽️⛳ In Whitley Bay
Backpacking In England: Playing Footgolf⚽️⛳ In Whitley Bay Have you ever heard of Footgolf? Now you have. It’s a mixture of football and golf. 😂⚽️⛳And I played it in Whitley Bay with famous Rafał Kowalczyk…
My Cosy Night In Shakespeare’s Town: The Queen’s Head, Stratford-upon-Avon, England
“Is this a dagger which I see before me?” – Macbeth. Years later than billed, far too late in my life I finally ended up in Shakespeare’s Town! Here I was in Stratford-upon-Avon, England. One…
Backpacking in Stratford Upon Avon, England🏴: Watching Much Ado About Nothing in William Shakespeare’s Town
“Much Ado About Nothing” – William Shakespeare. When I finally rolled by train into Stratford Upon Avon, I was in for a treat. I was actually in Shakespeare’s Town finally. It was February 2022 and…
15 Years Ago This Month: Front Page Of The Times – I Work In Bite Communications
“You’re getting off at Ravenscourt Park for Bite Communications” – Jonny Blair (2007). Whether the high flying life of London city and the world of PR was for me or not is history’s garbage tin.…
Red Hot Media Sellers – Bite Communications
Here is the song I wrote and sang to the tune of The Red Hot Chili Peppers song ‘Californication’ in June 2007, just before leaving my PR job in Bite Communications. Red Hot Media Sellers…
Friday’s Featured Food: Organising A “The Office Themed Night In” – Watch Every Episode, Related Food And Drink
“So what becomes of you, my love?” – The Stereophonics. While studying at Bournemouth University, me and a few university mates were addicted to the pure fire humour of BBC sitcom/documentary called “The Office“. I…
Backpacking In England: Lookman and Touring West Bromwich, Halesowen and Shell Corner
“Lookman anytime goal” – Jonny Blair and Lock In Lee Adams (20/02/2022). I was recently back backpacking in England and I added a brand new quintet to my settlement count. A hattrick of them will…