“We don’t want you Southerners finding our castles too easily”
Real Cultural Entertainment
I recently found a photograph from a few years ago. I got chatting to my 17 yr old lass and my 13 yr old lad about it and said that I loved the photo, but that perhaps some folk would see it and think that “maybe it gives off a whiff of… ‘white saviour.’ You […]
Power Struggles. And Strippergrams
“Mum, why is it, that no-one ever arrests strippergrams for ‘impersonating a police officer’?” I mean … I’ve always preferred the sort of kids who are interested in political and sociological issues, who chat about concepts such as the ‘police state’ and who possess an inquisitive mind, but …. this question did stump me somewhat. […]
Choose Your Stomping Ground Wisely
“How did we come to live here, Mum?”“Well. We were living in the Kalahari as you know … and we needed to leave because the secret police kept giving us hassle”“Seriously?”“Yeah. Once they were tailing your dad in his Hilux and he stopped. They stopped. And he got out and walked back to them and […]
Here’s HALIFAX – 1st of ‘Vivacious Visits’
Video (didn’t kill) the Radio Star
A few years ago, I came off the phone and was met with the comment of, “Good Grief, you and your mum can talk when you get going – what was that? Two hours?” “Actually, it wasn’t my mum,” I replied. “It was Trevor Baylis.” A short pause in the conversation. And then; “What? Trevor […]
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