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I was 10 years old the first time I played organised football on a Sunday morning. Long before the advent of smaller pitches and goalmouths for children I played on full sized pitches barely able to see the cross bar let alone touch it and I was lucky to clear the penalty area with my…… Continue reading Easy Like Sunday Morning (Football)

I don’t remember my first comic. The likelihood seems to be it would have been ‘Rupert the Bear’ of all things. I know I was soon getting the Beano on a weekly basis in lieu of pocket money and graduated to Victor (where Alf Tupper was my hero) pretty quickly after that. Some of my…… Continue reading Confessions of a comic book geek

Photo by @gothick Recently a blogpost did the rounds locally and achieved the rare thing of finding favour both with my Facebook and Twitter circles (over on Google+ people were still watching the tumbleweeds blow by.) The piece was called Bristol, give me a signal and was a poetic journey through one (young? student? hipster?) perspective of…… Continue reading Being Briztolian