I am at the start of my 2nd week of renewal, I find myself stronger but there is a fuzziness at the back of my head and I think that will be there for a long time. We were up early that Saturday morning and we went off to the […]
Sport
Peace Reigns On A Turbulent Future.
As we sit through these languid, warm and showery days of August 2013 realising there is work to do, putting a coat of varnish on the windows or clearing out the garage after a winter’s misuse, I wonder whether I am relaxing too much but sod it, I have had […]
The Sun Always Shines…
It is 11 days since my last posting, 11 days of mind searching, trying to think of another subject for posting on my blog. It becomes demoralising sitting here at my desk at 4.30am trying to summon up a subject and find there is nothing. I had overdosed on Bede’s […]
What Is Not In The News.
If there are any more things to say about the Hillsborough disaster in April 1989 that have not been said, it is the remarkable fact how on the day that 96 people lost their lives in the worst sporting catastrophe of Great Britain’s history, there was no crime committed. You […]
Auckland, Ahoy!
All this talk about Martin Tom and Rooskey, set me thinking of the first time I was in those parts during the Christmas of 1968. It was five years before my marriage to the lovely Helen, whose family as it turned out lived next door to the first house I […]
La Tour De France – 2012
I will let you into a little secret. I am hooked on the sport of cycling or at least watching it on the telly. This has not been an overnight conversion because as a kid I used to go down to the Reg Harris Stadium off Old Hall Lane in […]