Author Archives: sean
In Spain
there were four, maybe five of us (but, thinking back, it could have been a hundred) standing around by the bus stop catching death from the spray that reached out from under the wheels of passing cars and every time a bus drew up (which was seldom) no one got on, and even fewer ever … Continue reading
40 Things: Item 10 – Get a letter printed in 2000ad
This week, I’ve finally done something on the list I’ve always meant to do – get a letter printed in 2000ad comic. 2000ad comic’s been around now for 36 years. I’ve only got vague recollections of discovering it, but I’m fairly sure that I was about 7 or 8 years old and my Auntie Tweeny … Continue reading
Slow water
It drips, slowly Slowly from the lip of a frozen tap, A rhythm and a rhyme on the floor of the sink A metronome, endless The slow drip, the slow decline. Audible from the lounge, from the stairs The landing and the bedroom Sitting together, sharing a couch Easily fixed, but never faced … Continue reading
4 things :Item 23 – Deliver an….
….apparently well – informed and lengthy opinion in the local paper on a subject I actually know sod all about. And so the fun began to begin! After I got back from the opera (see item 7), I fired off a quick review to the Lancashire Evening Post, in the obvious hopes of killing … Continue reading
40 Things: Item 7- Go To An Opera
So, the first thing I did upon arriving at the theatre was to ask the impeccably dressed doorman as I handed him my ticket stub if I could see the manageress. She came out and we had a brief friendly word before I thanked her, had a picture taken with said doorman, and she went … Continue reading
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