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I remember being a 14 year old schoolboy and getting a visit by the local Amnesty International group during a Maths class. At the time I thought it was a welcome relief from trigonometry but after the fifth picture of someone being tortured it wasn’t relief that I felt but an unshaken feeling that [...]

I sit at the laptop just typing away and allowing the sound and rhythm of the keys formulate some sense of my random thoughts with regards to this fucking blog. I use that expletive because I’m getting frustrated at myself and trying to find a valid reason to keep on churning out the excrement [...]

Like many people, I came to know Ralph Steadman’s art work through the writing of Hunter Thompson. Steadman’s distorted visual interpetations of Thompson’s distorted, descriptive prose fused together so well that they became synaptically joined as artists and as people.
What you get from Steadman is the reality behind the shiny facade. The peeling [...]

“Let’s go to the Rare Poultry Farm in Ludlow.  Just to have a look.”  These two little darlings are the result of “just looking.”
Say hello to Muggle and Squib.

My weekly contribution to global warming involves driving past Six Ways, on to Gravelly Hill North and then joining the Aston Expressway and then all the way on the A38 until I get to Northfield to earn my daily bread. I know ought to use public transport (I do occasionally use it) but the [...]