When your plans are stationary like a boat tied up at the dock inexorably, you just can’t get going without buttering up the ref’ by learning about his name, his family, his route convoluted by temporary traffic- lights shifting around the b-roads by the viaduct. ‘Blending the Truth’ was such a strange choice of car […]

Support your skeleton going forward or embrace its weakness. I can’t do it for you. It depends on what your long term goals are – where you see yourself in five years’ time. The important thing is to eat every three hours: keep your blood sugar up. Only you have the answers. No carbs; no […]

As Welcome as the sight of allotment smoke in December, a quiet bonfire in the winter stillness, are the compressed distances of Sports Report, fingers hardened in the dusk after hours of working the ground, hat pulled down and boots muddied, hour upon hour of solitude with little or nothing to eat or drink, stepping […]

One day from under these floodlights the sun will rise in early spring, set like the memories you’ve left in gathering blue over the river. An extra layer will go, light jackets the order of the day at some T-junction of path and water where no-one knows your name and you have nothing to offer. […]

Madejski of the methane vents, hero of South Reading hinterland wastes made shiny and blue for out-of-town games at Junction 11: Madejski of the 1970’s where the marlin fishing never ends from South Florida to the Thames Valley Trader. Keep my taxes low and my name up high on buildings, hotels and conference centres. Charities […]