This weekend was wonderful and terrifying: like being attacked by dinosaurs (wow that’s really a Tyrannosaurus… this is amazing… oh dear I appear to have been eaten alive in a horribly gory fashion ( Read more... )

What a glorious weekend. I know there are monomaniacs out there: people with singular interests, dedicated souls devoted to one thing and one thing only. Good for them. That sort of thinking makes Olympic champions and CEOs of major law firms ( Read more... )

There were strange omens and augurs and premonitions. Crows talked backwards and it is said that in the village of Little Snoring a woman gave birth to live ferrets, so it was not surprising that, for me, the event started with a peculiar journey via Bristol (rather than getting stuck in traffic at Stonehenge like normal) and I greeted our B&B ( Read more... )

I’ve just returned from a long weekend in Bielefeld in Germany, seeing some friends, eating a lot of tasty vegan food, visiting a few sites and practicing my German, which is probably now at the level of a shy two-year-old ( Read more... )

This turned out to be a middle-class suburban weekend. We went to the rubbish tip twice. I contacted the council about a faulty street-light. We bought some ‘storage solutions’ from Argos. We tidied the shed and rearranged the spare room. We lived the middle-class suburban dream ( Read more... )

Despite waking up to read of the death of an old friend it was generally a good day (I just thought of a nice recollection - at a party in a flat with no postal address in Gillygate, York, he told me about a gathering of like-minded folk on the coast he’d just attended…and thus next year I attended the second Whitby Goth Weekend followed by many ( Read more... )

Last night I played a few board and card games with some friends. Cruelly, they beat me at the them all, but I still loved every minute ( Read more... )

My weekend was about music. Firstly and most personally, some wonderful friends of mine allowed me to borrow their flat for Rome Burns to have their first band practice for years. And I do love my band. We made beautiful noises and mostly remembered how to play our own songs… in between the odd beer, feeding various cats, a photo-shoot, chats about ( Read more... )

I am the killer of comics. Whenever I pick up a new series it will always face problems ( Read more... )

In this time of post-truth political turmoil, religious intolerance, fear, hate and celebrity TV gameshows; here in the darkest days of 2017, what glimmer of hope is there for the future of mankind… well Rome Burns have reformed and are here to save the universe!! Like the Power Rangers… only with more eye-liner and less kung-fu ( Read more... )