Rooms for improvement
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Rooms for improvement
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Backyard Holidays: Hoxton Street, London N1
It is an exotic place, an eccentric jumble of colour that never fails to reward
Diary Snapshot: Forgotten foodstuffs
Just add caperberries
Drabble: US gun sales leap by 94%
I wasn't sure she'd say yes, but I asked anyway. That Saturday we took our weapons and headed outta town. Separate cars. All through that freaky pandemic Summer we kept 2m apart, faces covered with bandanas like they said, and enjoyed the great outdoors of our beautiful state. They said it was a recommended recreational … Continue reading Drabble: US gun sales leap by 94%
Video: Torturing a wasp
Trapping one sent a shiver of shameful pleasure through the assembled group
Diary Snapshot: The End Of The World
Everything went to pot when...
Artwork Archive: Psychedelic Brain
In August 2013, I arrived at Headway East London after suffering a stroke. This is the first painting I did in the studio and it was the start the start of a journey in which I used art to "deal with" my brain injury, to explore and self-analyse aspects of my newly acquired disability. I … Continue reading Artwork Archive: Psychedelic Brain
Diary Snapshot: Fed Up With Flying
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Diary: 24-31 August
Everything went to pot when the kids stopped playing with yo-yos
Diary Snapshot: Exhibition nightmare
Post-lockdown exhibitions have their hazards
Literary imposter stalks Liverpool
Well-read New Man in search of female company
Backyard holidays: Coober Pedy, South Australia
The joy of travel without moving (very much) One of my fridge magnets...
Diary Snapshot: The Scent of Fertility
The smell of tomatoes
Drabble: Three songs, one story
Brian finally agreed he was in trouble when he started to believe Romeo, as Mark Knopfler reports, really did proposition Juliet with the words, "You and me, Babe, how about it? Further clues arrived. He'd grown obsessed by what Elton John saw in the Tiny Dancer's "pirate smile". And what Billy Joel sang when that … Continue reading Drabble: Three songs, one story
Diary Snapshot: Zoom secrets revealed
The hugely successful conferencing app is the skiver's best friend...
Diary snapshot: Another Penis Euphemism
I checked about 10 times that I'd written it down correctly...
Short story: To Sir With Love
I had a black female friend aged eight, the same as me, and she was the only one in the school
Diary snapshot: Allotment wanted!
When requests appear on our local online noticeboard...
Drabble: All Stories Are Lies
The story was real enough, a gem, but to tell it would be to lie
Diary snapshot: Misery Monologue, with oats on the side
It continued in a taut spiral of dark introspection
Billy's Scrapbook 