My favourite way to travel to London is by sleeper train. It gives me a sense of how Harry Potter felt when he pushed his trunk and owl-laden trolley into the other world of platform 9 3/4. Instead of being pursued by a vast bearded man on an enchanted motorbike though, I just need […]
A Belfast weekend in pictures
I love staying in hotels because someone else clears up while your own house doesn’t get any dirtier. Everyone else loves them for the surprise cake. The Europa was fab – even posting us the clothes one of the boys left behind. You can just see the H&W gantry cranes over Boy Two’s shoulder. […]
A fine bed
A poem inspired by Fionaoutdoors and her adventure in the furniture shop. A fine bed It will last 20 years, they said. This bed. Like a galleon, strong enough to sail through your stormy nights, safely to the dawns. The wood got ready in forests. Sprouting and branching while you were still rolling through the […]
Things I’ve learned from my first festival camping trip
I’ve never seen Star Wars either – not properly all the way through. But years after most people have gone through the rite of passage of a pilgrimage to Glastonbury or wallowed in the mud of T in the Park, I made it to my first festival – Kendal Calling 2016. Here’s what I learned: […]
A festival of things to worry about…
It’s funny how sometimes there’s a blog-shaped gap and, try as I might, nothing to fill it at all. Or the only stuff going on in my life is too boring to even think about, let alone adorn the blog. However, at the moment, my head is as jammed as my calendar. Don’t get too […]