Commonplaces

There are times when having a telephone conversation with my father is like being back at work doing a remote technical support call. After ...

A weekend 'phone conversation with my father: Him: "Sorry to bother you but I need a bit of advice, I'm feeling very warm and I...

Oh golly, It's so jolly, Bunting far as eye can see Across closed pubs Adorning food banks For the royal jubilee. Grannies knitting Post...

 'Course, when you get to my age you start getting lots of letters from the NHS. Like this one: Dear Mr Musgrove, Please stop sending us...

2020's been a bit like this. OK, a lot like this… Have a safe and happy Chrimbo anyway. Take care and be kind.

Just a quickie, checking on you all in the current awfulness as you lounge around in your bouncy castles giving out the lairy chat to passin...

2019's been a ropy old year one way or another so, by way of reaching for a comfort blanket, I've got my Christmas Radio Times so I ...

"You'll find that most of them are lookalikes of famous celebrities who died in aeroplane crashes," explained the receptionist...

While people are on about maps, here's one of another place.

The civic hall had had better days but had only fitfully partaken of them. Once upon the time its floorboards had groaned to the foxtrot str...

I buried my mother today. Quite literally, I buried my mother. The ceremonials had been done and dusted a few weeks ago and today I placed...

On the twelfth day of Christmas… Oh why did I ever start this? Fuck me sideways, it's the Easter Hamster already and we haven...

On the eleventh day of Christmas my true love gave to me… Theresa May joining in the "Guess The Size Of The Invisble Man's...

On the tenth day of Christmas my true love gave to me… Tickets to see Mrs Threadgold and her Brownies in their adaptation of "...

On the ninth day of Christmas my true love gave to me… Britain's rail operators justifying yet another eye-watering rise in far...