Sun Dried Sparrows

I haven't seen my dad in over 9 years.  There's some baggage there but I don't wish to unpack it now - instead, my baggage will ...

 "Look at what the little buggers have done...!  They've shit all down the wall!"  Mum was looking out of the side door and up...

When you take a trip to the big city, you really have to do a few things you can't at home, don't you? So the other week on a visit ...

  This time tomorrow I should be on my way to Bristol. It’ll be just a few days shy of ten years since I visited the city for the first time...

I caught myself doing a bit of reflecting recently.  Not always a good thing, I know, but what it led me to was thinking about those little ...

Chumbawamba got it right, didn't they? It was so good, even better than I'd expected, to see them again on the recent BBC Four repea...

I hear it before I see it. A whistling call, slightly eerie. Tilt my head upwards… Oh wow.   Flying low, wheeling, above the gardens. ...

That weekend my world was one of bearded men with chainsaws and women in pinnies.  The men wielded their tools, the women replenished melami...