I’m off to Greenbelt
if anyone wants to meet me in the flesh, I left my mobile number on the appropriate facebook thread. I have more stories to post here too, but my house internet broke so I have to go the library to get...
View ArticleI’m blogging from Green Belt
I just wanted to tell you. I have a pop up tent which I expected to detonate spectacularly from it’s bag when I pulled the zipper. It didn’t and I was left looking foolish until I realised I had to...
View ArticleIn which I fall into glue
I got back from my first ever Greenbelt after I worked out how to get the pop-up-tent to pop down again. Much has been written on this site about the festival so I won’t bore you with my own views. I...
View ArticleOn staying with friends
So the flat I was due to move into had a massive damp problem and consequently I couldn’t move in. Fortunately I have been rescued from Dickensian squalor by my friends Richard and Sarah to whom I owe...
View ArticleLa Machine
One of the good things about being a displaced Yorkshireman in Merseyside is the fact that Liverpool is the 2008 European Capital of Culture. This means that the city is awash with vast amounts of...
View ArticleWe’re doing science and we’re still alive*
*(a prize for anyone who can name the pop culture reference) So the amusingly titled (and slightly rude sounding) Large Hadron Collider failed to destroy the Earth today. I don’t know too much about...
View ArticleHello again people
I’ve recently been working on other writing projects and therefore blogging has taken a back seat. I crashed out of NYCMidnights creative writing challenge at the third hurdle. (see www.nycmidnight.com...
View ArticleNYC Midnight first heat
The cinema is our usual drop off point. Chunky red writing on a white background spells out “The Metropolitan Picture House”. Torn faded posters advertising Casablanca, Aliens and The Godfather. The...
View ArticleNYC Midnight second heat
Forget the MGM Grand with it’s clientèle of rich tourists. Leave behind the Luxor with it’s doormen clad like Pharaohs, cloying opulence, halls of yuppies gambling on the roulette wheel. In another...
View ArticleWritings
The below two entries are my first two heat entries in the NYC midnight writing competition. I’m afraid that both entries were written over the course of two sunday afternoons to tight deadlines and...
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