Simply the Best
I’m sure I’m not the only Geordie who can remember hearing the news of Sir Bobby Robson’s death almost ten years ago on Friday 31st July 2009. I was gearing…
I’m sure I’m not the only Geordie who can remember hearing the news of Sir Bobby Robson’s death almost ten years ago on Friday 31st July 2009. I was gearing…
I’m sharing Jen’s blog about Green Beans at Whitley Bay market on Sunday 30th June…
This time last week I was in Senigallia. It’s a port town and holiday resort on Italy’s Adriatic coast. I’m telling you this because I’m guessing you’ve never heard of…
This blog is by my cousin Karen’s son, Ross Punton. Thanks for writing it, Ross x
Uh oh. Here I go again. Blubbin’ over my John Lewis pillar box red DAB radio. Crying over a radio programme again, Elaine? Yes, I’m listening to Ann Cleeves on…
Do you remember Mike Teavee, the television-obssessed boy revealed as the fourth Golden Ticket winner in Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory? I was that child back in 1970s…
I’m on a high. I’ve been on it since the pre-gig adrenalin kicked in a few hours before last Thursday evening’s Meet the Poet: Elaine Cusack event at Whitley Bay…
It’s raining now as it was twelve hours ago when I walked the one and a half miles from my home to Cullercoats Crescent Club. I’ve made the journey many…
Mam, Nan, Anthea Redfern, Jaclyn Smith, and Anna-Maria Dragone. This is the list of female role models in my life from birth to the age of 10. Then there was…
I was born and raised in Felling on the south side of the River Tyne. I lived there for the first 19 years of my life then moved away to…