Saturday I headed to see Phoenix Sports play AFC Hornchurch in the FA Cup second qualifying round. Both sides are in the Ryman League Division North and the game was very open and competitive, ending 5-3 to the visitors. I am not sure I’m the best person to put together a match report, as I’m pretty sure I lost count of the score at one point. Read the rest of this entry »
Took a morning stroll and came across quite the display at the entrance to my local railway station. Read the rest of this entry »
I do like to wander around London, as a lot of people do. A walk from the station into work, a walk back at night, and often a walk during my lunch hour. There are so many Londons, often within yards of each other. So many unheralded corners, neglected views. Read the rest of this entry »
I recently left my job. I’d been there several years, long enough for there to be whispers that I might be a “lifer” in the making, but I wasn’t quite there yet. I think I departed just in time, before reaching a point where future employers wonder “Why did he spend so long there?” I also left just in time to avoid becoming institutionalised. In every sense of the word. Read the rest of this entry »
About ten years ago I remember listening to the radio, many miles from home. This song came on, It’s For You. I hadn’t ever knowingly heard it. I thought it was astonishing, dramatic, unusual. I wondered if I had happened upon a great lost song, a great lost artist. Read the rest of this entry »
Wait until next year 