Three days that didn't quite shake the world
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Diary: 22-24 September
Three days that didn’t change the world, exactly
Backyard holiday: Regents Canal, London
Mothers with buggies jostled with militant cyclists. Idle students lolled on the grassy verges
Diary: 15-21 September
Brexit bust-up breaks new ground, but Covid continues to cause chaos
SoCS 19.9.20: Tion Wayne
The challenge is to use words ending in TION in a stream of consciousness. If it hadn't been for SoCS, the British rapper Tion Wayne would have passed me by. As it is, my attention has been piqued and henceforth I shall roam the land up and down, back and forth, this way and that, … Continue reading SoCS 19.9.20: Tion Wayne
Flashback: This time last year
So much has changed in such a short space of time
Drabble: Accidental damage
She was hunched over the sink, head in hands
Diary: 8-14 September
I got told off again, this time for leaving the teabag in the tea cup
Backyard holidays: Barbican, London
My Lockdown leisure walks have taken me to every corner of the Barbican's concrete wonderland. Or so I thought...
Drabble: Toddler Zombie Walk ends in tears
He thought it would be a fun introduction to the complexities of death
Diary: 1-7 September
Then someone said “lazy” home-workers should be forced back to their offices
Drabble: U2 not really all that bad
Then someone said U2 "romanticize the shiny side of an old coin"
Drabble: Rattle & Hum
When a Chinook loiters over Cripplegate, we all wonder...
Diary: August 2020
The month started with signs of post-Covid life emerging, and ended with sobering thoughts on what now lies ahead...
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%
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: 24-31 August
Everything went to pot when the kids stopped playing with yo-yos
Literary imposter stalks Liverpool
Well-read New Man in search of female company
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
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
Billy's Scrapbook 