16-22 October…
Scrapbook: Week 42, 2021
Author: Billy Mann
I'm originally from Liverpool and worked as a national magazine journalist for more than 30 years before suffering a stroke at age 53. I started blogging as part of a neuro-rehabilitation programme and wrote the very first entries with one finger of my disabled left hand. Later, art became another therapy for me at Headway East London's Submit To Love studios. I blog regularly and volunteer as a teaching assistant, coaching schoolchildren in aspects of journalism.
September 2021, as it happened…
“Gosh, how left-wing can the Conservative Party become before someone starts calling it Marxist?”
Scrapbook: Week 41, 2021
October 9-15…
Scrapbook: Week 40, 2021
October 2-8…
Scrapbook: Week 39, 2021
September 25-October 1… SATURDAY Finally, at 44% into Donna Leon's Earthly Remains a body has been found in the Venice Laguna. 📌 The Golden Lane Estate has a visionary layout. Around 60% is open space. Lawns and leisure facilities on your doorstep. A branded stitchwork tote bag showing its colour-coded plan seemed like a nice … Continue reading Scrapbook: Week 39, 2021
Scrapbook: Week 38
18-24 September…
Scrapbook: Week 37
11-17 September…
Scrapbook: Week 36
September 4-10…
Scrapbook: Week 35
August 28-September 3… "Chris said people from big families eat faster,"
One year ago: Week 35, 2020
August 24-30...
Scrapbook: Week 34
"Maybe Afghanistan is the reset-to-zero button on Britain's foreign policy."
Scrapbook: Week 33
"I managed to make Japan look exceptionally small"
One year ago: Week 34, 2020
"She described a man on a train with his “thingy madoobly” hanging out."
Drabble: Mutton Jeff
The deaf one was irritating. He shouted a lot. That's understandable, but he was also a braggart, so his shoutings were especially annoying. I've got a new phone, you know. Takes pictures. Brilliant quality. I got this case for it off the internet. The clasp is magnetic. At the exhibition, Shouty was so shouty that … Continue reading Drabble: Mutton Jeff
One year ago: Week 33, 2020
"My wife agreed to water a neighbour's plants while they holidayed in Greece. One of the plants is called Alice."
Scrapbook: Week 32
"Keith sent a photo that tortures a bad pun so badly it becomes good."
One year ago: Week 32, 2020
"The taxi driver said the government's handling of the virus crisis was a shambles."
Scrapbook: Week 31
'Every week on Love Island sex talk breaks new boundaries and euphemism gets lost in the throes of ecstacy'
One year ago: Week 31, 2020
“I now suspect the Labour Party is keeping quiet about government screw-ups because it would most likely have done pretty much the same.”
Scrapbook: Week 30
"A yellow spotted tentacle twists and turns to infinity."
