Years ago my friend Tom Pilston (one of the great news photographers) and I came down to Holywell to see Hunters Moon Morris dance up the sun… Read more “Dancing the sun up at Holywell with Hunters Moon Morris”
Category: Other stuff
Farewell to the Orient. “Never again kid, never again.”
That’s it then. The end of 112 years of playing in the football league. Leyton Orient gone. Not many people will care. We never won anything of note.… Read more “Farewell to the Orient. “Never again kid, never again.””
I need a woman, in her 80s, who sounds half Cockney & half like the Queen. Can you help?
I need a woman. A specific kind of woman, probably in her Eighties or even Nineties, born and raised in the East End of London, brought up… Read more “I need a woman, in her 80s, who sounds half Cockney & half like the Queen. Can you help?”
Hear how a young man’s death broke the heart of an Irish island community, on the Great Blasket 70 years ago
Seventy years ago, a young man known as Seánín died on the Great Blasket, a remote island at the tip of the Dingle peninsula in County Kerry,… Read more “Hear how a young man’s death broke the heart of an Irish island community, on the Great Blasket 70 years ago”
A Just War Is A Hero’s Right: remembering one of many lives lost, in the light of Chilcot
Words from 2006, offered in memory of Kingsman Jamie Hancock, killed in Basra at the age of 18. Reposted in the light of Chilcot’s damning verdict on why… Read more “A Just War Is A Hero’s Right: remembering one of many lives lost, in the light of Chilcot”
