Category: Travel

Covent Garden

I’ve been tramping round Covent Garden since my mid-teens back in the eighties. In those days (oh, “when I were young” etc), it was rather a different place. Same buildings (on the main), it’s the nature of the shops that’s changed. Neal Street has but one shop I can identify as having not closed since…

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Another proposition

It was on my 21st birthday. I was in a KFC in Oman. Read on…. My father had a job working in Oman. He’d bought tickets for my brother and I to go out there to stay for a bit during the summer, and being a student I had as long as I wanted. Well,…

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May Day Dawn

As a Morris Dancer, I danced at May Day Dawn for a whole load of years, at university with Yare Valley Morris on Mousehold Heath, then in Guildford with Pilgrm Morris at St. Martha’s. There was a break in all of this when I was in Thailand, back in 199x. I still managed to see…

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