So it is officially the end of summer and about time too. As I sit here in my soaking wet trousers, shoes and socks, shivering and snuffling and smelling of wet dog, I remember what an utterly wonderful summer it was. Oh sorry, no I am wrong. It rained . . . and rained again.
I […]
Just to pre-warn you - I shall soon be taking a short and well deserved break. I am off to visit my family in the East Midlands. The original trip was meant to coincide with a performance by the mighty Enormous but that gig was cancelled at the last minute by the powers that be. […]
‘Tis the season to get married, or so it seems. All I hear is talk of stag dos and hen nights. Once upon a time these consisted of a drink of an evening, now things are far more complicated. An evening with select friends and family has now expanded into a weekend away. Trips are […]
A number of my closest friends and I were recently invited to a party. It was billed as a “Wear a Fancy Dress” party. I am always up for one of these and they are becoming increasingly popular in that London. We all trotted off to a pub on the South Bank, called the Founders […]
The crazies were out in force this morning. The filthy, smelly, spit-covered Whitechapel streets were being patrolled by the mental and the drunk. It is often frightening. There were tribes of disgusting, ugly men and women sprawled all over the pavements, lying in their own sick and screaming at the world.
There is one particularly unpleasant […]
Canoe death scam couple, John and Anne Darwin, have been jailed for more than six years and have had their assets frozen in an attempt to recover £250,000 they conned out of insurance firms. It was deception on a grand scale. I too have been party to a despicable deception.
I once met a tall, blonde, […]
One of the most popular beers in Finland goes by the name of Koff. This is not my favourite Finnish beer – that will be Lapin Kulta. In English this translates as Lapp Gold because it is brewed in the Lapland town of Tornio. Lapin Kulta is actually my favourite beer . . . ever.
When […]
For a while I lived ten stories up in a penthouse flat on Kingsland Road in Shoreditch. Being on the top floor I was able to crawl out of the window, shuffle along a tiny ledge and then climb up a small ladder. Positioning myself on the roof I had an amazing view of central […]
Stuart Adamson frontman and songwriter for Scottish guitar band Big Country summed it up best in the song ‘Porrohman’:
“But many went before us, and still the cries are clear,
There is no beauty here, just the stench of wine and beer.”
You’re not wrong Stu.