North and South / August 15 2008
Dear old Nelson Galaxy is always telling me about the alarming things he often hears coming from the streets around his flat in London, and considering the nature of such a big city, this is something that is not totally unexpected. I have no idea, however, what was happening last night right here in this [...]
He Still Wants To Believe / August 7 2008
Reg has just been telling me again about his recent UFO sighting. He described the object he saw in the sky and recounted in encouraging detail how he had watched it come down in a small copse near the Townend Farm sheep fields. He finished by asking: ‘You don’t believe me, do you?’
‘I believe you [...]
David Duchovny Ate My Hamster / July 31 2008
We are supposed to enjoy something of a temperate climate here in the UK but it is becoming more and more extreme.
It is so cold around here in the winter that rainbows freeze to the ground; poor kids chip off pieces of their favourite colours for a Christmas treat and lick them until they’re white. [...]
He Wants To Believe More / July 30 2008
Septuagenarian arch joker and conspiracy theorist Reg has been telling me more about the alien spacecraft he is convinced made a crash landing recently in the Derbyshire hills just outside of Blackwell. I bumped into him yesterday as he was jumping off the Alfreton bus.
‘Hey, Davy, look at this what I’ve just bought!’ His voice [...]
He Wants To Believe / July 24 2008
There was a knock on the door half an hour ago. Standing there was Reg, breathless and sweating profusely. His tiny Jack Russell was trying to urinate on every vertical surface within three feet of my front door.
‘Here, I’ve come to show you this again. Amazing, eh?’ He thrust an object into my hands whose [...]
More Secrets and Pies / July 21 2008
Reg collared me again today. He was coming out of the Blockbuster store on the High Street with an arm full of DVDs. ‘What do you reckon?’ he asked.
‘What’s that, Reginald?’
‘I said to the bloke in there,’ he pointed behind him, into the shop, ‘Can I have Batman Forever?’
‘Oh, yes?’
‘Do you know what he told [...]
