(originally written on December 31, 2017) Sad to see this venerable drapery shop in Kidsgrove has finally closed down. It belonged to an age when shopping was a […]
Stoke On a Winter’s Afternoon. .
(originally written on 29 November, 2017) A grey, overcast day, with the kind of deadening chill in the air that only serves to lower the spirits ; so […]
An Addenda. . .
(originally written on November 1, 2017) Strange how things come back to you, unbidden….you might have read my previous blog post about a visit to Tintern Abbey in […]
The Girl In The Lilac Jacket
(originally written on 20 October 2017) It’s 1972, more or less, and life for a teenager in a grubby midlands city is full of the usual concerns – […]
Reeling In The Years…
(originally written on October 20 2017) So much rain this week, and staying in tends to make me feel reflective (aka moping about the past)…not, I hope the […]
The Abandoned Fish and Chip Shop
(originally written on September 21 2017) As in so many city centres, new buildings of variable design quality are being thrown up fast in Derby. The sprawling Eagle […]
Breaking Point
(originally written on September 19 2017) Years ago I used to work in a second-hand book shop, which rather grandly preferred to call itself an “antiquarian” bookshop. This […]
A girl of your intelligence
(originally written on September 19 2017) Let’s reel back the years, too many years, to 1967. It’s the “Summer of Love”, a time of immense cultural shift and […]