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The Making Of A Cult Classic

RJ McKendree's amazing 'Wallflower' album, and how it became no longer fictional...

Ghost

A brief record of a confusing and eerie thing that happened to me on a moor, from a couple of years ago

Memories Of My Time Living In Edwardian Britain

(Reposted, free for everyone to read, because I prefer it that way.)

Things About The Countryside That Make Me Angry, And Some Photographs I Have Taken Of Them

Diary Notes, November, 2022: The Pleasure Garden

Writing

Why I Am There And Not There

Today I feel more tired of social media than ever before and more thankful for Substack than ever before. Yesterday I deleted my Twitter account, having been briefly drawn back there for the usual reason: the desire to give books I’ve put every ounce of myself into the best

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Nottinghamtopia

I have been feeling a little down for the last few days. Here, six and a half big hills away from the south Cornish coast, the weather feels like it’s been dishwater grey and soggy since a few days prior to forever, plus there’s the whole subtly nagging

Writing

Native Tongue (short fiction)

Hi! I’m sorry but I’m going to have to speak to you using this notepad today. I’m in so much pain. Thank you. It’s quite bad. So you know that ulcer I told you about, the one on the back of my tongue that I got

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Radishes

We picked and ate the last of the radishes today. They were my favourite food when I was eight and not much has changed. I can never understand why they remain so unfashionable: it’s not as if they’re cucumber or something. This year’s crop were all very