Big Tastes
In my last blog, Alcoholiday, I wrote about recalibrating my 40 year relationship with booze. I was helped by following Annie Grace’s challenge in The Alcohol Experiment: 30 Days to…
In my last blog, Alcoholiday, I wrote about recalibrating my 40 year relationship with booze. I was helped by following Annie Grace’s challenge in The Alcohol Experiment: 30 Days to…
I’m standing at Tynemouth Station Book Fair this month on Sunday 19th June from 10am to 4pm. It’s situated on the west concourse of the station i.e. the smaller side…
How healthy is your relationship with booze? For many of us, this is a difficult question to answer truthfully. We lie to ourselves and others. I decided to recalibrate my…
Is it possible and/or appropriate to wish “Happy Birthday” to an album? If so then this blog is my attempt to mark 25 years this weekend of OK Computer, Radiohead’s…
Gigs, gigs, gigs. There was a time, ooh about 30 years ago, when I’d be out at gigs two or three times a week. Lockdown aside, I can count on…
On Tuesday 10th May I’ll be performing at Under the Arches alongside Rob Walton and Dean Jolly. This monthly event is hosted by Penny Blackburn and held in Alfie and…
What to wear? What will I wear?! As the days count down to a spoken word gig, I find myself having what I call a “Clothes Faff.” I used to…
I love the BBC TV series Art That Made Us. It’s currently showing on BBC2 and is a co-production with The Open University. The series covers 1500 years and presents…
Hard to believe it’s a whopping 37 years since I wrote my first “proper” poem. I was 15 and on holiday in Northern Ireland. “The Troubles” were ongoing so the…
This time next week I’ll be limbering up and enjoying my usual clothes faff ahead of an afternoon gig in Morpeth. I’m delighted to be part of the Morpeth Book…