The author Garrison Keillor isn’t content to just sit there and write. No, he has to go and broadcast a radio show, The Writer’s Almanac. The programme also has it’s own small site with a daily poem and small snippets of interesting literary history - ‘on this day’ style. You can download the show as […]
Since writing about how narked I was by a rapscallion’s public pissing, I’ve made a new discovery about the area. The poet Robert Browning used to live in New Cross in the 1840’s, until he ran away with Elizabeth Barrett in 1846. It was from the family home on what is now Musgrave Road Jerningham […]
There he was, a teenager, just peeing against the bush, only a few metres from my front door and even closer to my neighbours’ door. It was only around 7 o’clock and still light, and the pavement provided no cover. Silently, I pushed my bike past to lock it in the shed around the back. […]
