They said on ‘You Must Remember This’, a podcast about Hollywood, that Van Johnson hated to leave the studio at the end of a day’s...

It stood to reason we had to get mobile, we were like a rat with no legs in the street. We were carless. The smelly, polluting automobile...

Can’t even share my YouTube videos with Mum, because we can’t get into the Care Home. The only way would be to get beside her and show...

What priceless privileges (as we now see them), a generation, or a civilisation, has lost through the effects of Covid-19. Great...

Wednesday 1.VII.2020 Got, apart from a few pieces of tinkering, two podcasts of dining room chat in the can: Red Wine Dialogues. We’ve...

Friday 26.VI.2020 It’s the last Friday of the month, which means Stand & Deliver. On the wings of Zoom we will meet the crowd from...

Had a new poem, to which I added chords and the title ‘Sky at Night’. (This was in honour of Bob Ash, the stargazer who used to live on...

A friend is launching his poetry book on the latest online craze, Zoom. This is the same software our coach uses when he supervises us...

No 6:30 walk this morning. Breakfast in bed. Stayed there listening to a podcast about Billy the Kid, then one about the Royals. I’ve got...

Over the last three years or so I’ve been wary of bus rides because I’d had some bouts of flu that hung around for a couple of months. I...

Thought I would try a few pieces of poesy for this blog post, see how they go. After that, who knows? You like 'em? * * * * * * BURSARY...

What about the ‘act’ in the time of Covid? Plenty of time to practise and strum the gee-tar, but by the time we can go back to the...

Put my seven favourite books on Facebook, the covers anyway, sans comment or review, in seven days as requested by Pauline Diamond. The...

I bought a brass key gadget that you can use to turn door handles, type on keyboards, write on screens, etc., so you don’t have to touch...

The print run was small and done with crayons: it numbered all of one.

Unlike Uncle Bill, Stalky, Tango, or Piggy, our English teacher, Neil Salmon, didn't have a nickname. He was respected and liked. He used...

‘If Rosemary shows up too, that’ll be great,’ said Tony tentatively. ‘Don’t forget, boys, the ladies can be unpredictable,’ said Teddy ‘I...

Friday night Tony had a shave and shower and reached for his jacket. ‘Ready Steady Go!’ had just finished on ITV. Gene Pitney, in a...

The summer after leaving Morland Road Primary School our class was getting ready to go on to Northgate Grammar, Landseer Road, Nacton...

They had a whole gallery of people ready to take the stage of Ipswich’s #NewWolseyTheatre and pay tribute to Peter Hewett, from the...