Resolved: Visit one new (to me) football ground a month January: Teams: Leyton FC vs Wealdstone League: Ryman Premier Entry Price: ‘8 Programme: ‘1.50 Stadium Architecture: Won’t trouble the Stirling Judges Leyton FC claims […]
Calendars My girlfriend bought me a West Ham calendar yesterday. January 26th is followed by the 27th, the 38th, then back to the 29th. Unfortunately, like last year’s play-off final, Crystal Palace have gone one better and missed out April alt[…]
The Pogues in Brixton I was lying flat in a London Osteopathy clinic last night. The Doctor was manipulating a disc in my back, trying to stop the sciatic nerve shooting pain down my leg. He advised me to go home and take a bath. Instead I went to a […]
Test Match – The Best Christmas Present Ever Or at least, the most pleasure I ever got from an old skool (non-computer) game. There was a Subbuteo forerunner to Test Match. In typical Subbuteo style, it came with loads of static extras; nice l[…]
There’s something a little uncomfortable about this headline. And this is the Guardian, not some Spanish rag.[…]
That’s not the coolest opening sentence I’ve ever written. It’s a song that I loved, then hated with a passion and it now sits in limbo beyond like and dislike. What it does contain is all my childhood Christmas memories. I don̵[…]
Ukraine The Ukrainian election coverage by the BBC surprised me. Lead item for the last two nights and highly detailed in terms of context. Why is this? Other elections in former Soviet Republics this year received far less BBC coverage. Georgia (whe[…]
47 KitKats are eaten every second in the UK and ex-Bond heartthrob Pierce Brosnan is a ‘big fan’. Not everyone is on message, though. From the Guardian (natch): KitKat is my favourite bar, but I have not bought one since Nestle tried to e[…]
Frocks Frocks was always a nice caf’. Dark wooded with squeezy condiment bottles. Not a greasy spoon but neither was it poncy. The Observer and the News of the World sat cheek by jowl and the working class tucked their dirty shirts in. There wa[…]
London TV Station Not sure how long it’s been operating, but in an effort to watch anything but Hollyoaks, I came across this station yesterday. It’s 244 on Sky and I’m not sure other providers can get it at the moment. It’s p[…]