Deira Diary
An account of the UK, and the wider (and sometimes much narrower) world that I inhabit
Monday, December 19, 2022
Snakes on the Stage - Rockin The Social
›
Snakes, Snakeoil Rattlers, and a folky Scouse sentimentalist shared the bill at What’s Cookin' on Saturday night. It was an even wackier...
5 comments:
Thursday, December 8, 2022
Midnight Canonball's debut pyrotechnics
›
Midnight Canonball’s debut gig was explosive. ‘The New Inn’ in Hadlow Down (East Sussex, England) had opened up a former hotel function roo...
4 comments:
Saturday, November 26, 2022
Forty years on: Dr Feelgood live, one week before Wilko’s death
›
Dr Feelgood are probably the world’s greatest tribute band. Consisting of three members from a 1980s incarnation of the legendary 1970s ban...
2 comments:
Wednesday, September 14, 2022
Time to talk about the British republic
›
In a post-Brexit time of national uncertainty and economic struggle, it’s perhaps logical that the death of the grandmother of the nation sh...
12 comments:
Wednesday, July 27, 2022
An affront to parliamentary democracy that produces Truss as PM and Corbyn as Labour leader
›
Both main UK political parties have for more than a decade betrayed parliamentary democracy in favour of a US primary-type method for electi...
7 comments:
Saturday, March 5, 2022
Running for (creative) therapy
›
I am once again putting rubber to the tarmac and running the Hastings Half-Marathon on March 20th. I am doing it for two reasons: exercise ...
Friday, February 11, 2022
Penge by bike
›
I am on an assignment: to work out what I want with what’s left of my life and how I can ensure that I am stable, perhaps even happy, with w...
8 comments:
‹
›
Home
View web version