The Dust Diaries
40 Things: Galalshiels – Hawick – Longsands – Carlisle: Monday 2nd Sept
The young gent with the three McDonalds stars on his apron leaned over my table nervously as I tucked into my sausage and egg Mcmuffin. “The manageress has asked if you could move your tent in twenty minutes, as you’re on private property”. I grunted with a nod and replied in the affirmative. That’s the … Continue reading
40 Things: Get Pedalling – Sunday 1st Sept
Never mind your legs, it’s in your head where it hits you the hardest. Legs can keep going, see. All you have to do at the beginning of the journey is tell yourself that you’re going to get wet, that you’re going to be tired, and that you’re going to ache in places that you’ve … Continue reading
40 Things: Item 22 – Volunteer For Something.
It was a weekend in which I entrusted my life to Karma. It was a weekend where I was supposed to be somewhere else, doing something else. And more importantly, it was a weekend in which I finally came to understand that, no matter how good our intentions, we are all the universes playthings. To … 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
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
