A Crow Descending / July 16 2008
After being dive-bombed by an angry crow on the rec’ for ten minutes earlier today, Audrey and I took a different route home, along Landsbury Avenue and past the sewage works on the other side of the village. We regretted it.
Just before we reached the junction with the main road that leads to Mansfield, we [...]
Traci Lords Will Eat Me / April 17 2008
I’m terrified. I have just had an email from someone called Randy Kilroy the subject of which declares: ‘Traci Lords Will Eat You’.
Not a very auspicious start to the day. I am already paranoid enough as it is and now some complete stranger is apparently going to devour me. I shall make sure all the [...]
Giant Elvis / March 10 2008
The newly painted sign above the door of the flower shop in the market place declares, in big gold lettering on a purple background: Victorian Posy Shoppe, Florist and Balloon Decorator. In the window, behind which usually reside clever arrangements and bouquets of colourful roses and carnations, there is an assortment of silver and gold [...]
Unexpected Polish Inquisition / February 20 2008
It is no wonder I sometimes feel paranoid.
Walking past the market place at about 8am this morning, I heard a gruff male voice call out, ‘Hey, Steve! You dog bloody bugger!’
It was one of the small congregation of Polish immigrants who assemble every day outside the cake shop awaiting the minibus that ferries them to [...]
