Five years on… recalling Brexit Day 2020
Trying to avoid Brexit Day 2020, to be away from Brexity events, we’ve booked into a Jilly Cooper novel. Picture …
Category Archives: Disparate Britain
It’s all about a sausage
Do come in. It’s a genteel guesthouse in the greyly unfashionable part of Guernsey, run by Basil Fawlty. It’s a …
Illusions
Imagine. You’re in hospital, severely infected, septicaemic. You’ve conscientiously handed over all your own medications. When your doctor comes to …
Coming shortly to a skip near you
Catalogues are the bane of old people’s back bedrooms. Catalogues mean that old ladies’ back bedrooms are stuffed with dreadful …
The lost mill: Castle Mill, Cheshire
My mother has reminisced about spending childhood holidays at her Auntie Amy’s farm close adjacent to the River Bollin at Castle …
Batley British Legion presents (a true tale of thespian derring do)
You can tell he’s going to be a bore; the sludge-shade ‘slacks’ labelled him as Man From Greenwoods, or a cardboard …
Model neighbours
I did. I was the only person who went to help. There was a blood trail going up the stairs …
Photograph album of the mind
I’m thinking about a drill hall photo which, when closely examined, reveals three misty figures by the gate: a round-faced …
Spring Drill Halls with Mint Sauce
To reach North Wales from here, you have to drive through Betws y Coed, a village which has reached critical …
Magic Treasure House
I have been in a magic treasure house!! The hand-craft jeweller I bought some little studs from told me about …
Shot Silk 