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Can’t you tell him?
That’s (one of) my bed(s)!
Posted in Along Came Dylan, Walking Ollie
Tagged animal-rescue, Dogs, greyhounds, lurchers, Salukis
5 Comments
Start as you mean to go on, that’s the thing…
I’ve never been pulled off my feet by a dog until this morning. Trezza and I took the two of them to the back of the University where there are three football pitches side by side. Our conversation was along … Continue reading
Posted in Along Came Dylan, Walking Ollie
Tagged animal-rescue, Dogs, greyhounds, Salukis
11 Comments
Meet Lemon
We picked him up from foster care today. He was found wandering in Dublin in the middle of last year and found his way to the UK in a sorryish state by the means of a rescue organisation based in … Continue reading
Most timely
Tinchy and N-Dubz had to cancel a show at UEA a few weeks ago. It is re-scheduled for tonight and I am off there soon. For these boys it will be this: Elsewhere in Norwich I can hear the cries … Continue reading
Posted in From Working-Class Hero to Absolute Disgrace (A Memoir
Tagged N-Dubz, Norwich City, Tinchy Stryder, UEA
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Number One!
A few years ago my son Jack and his friend Archie were determined that Norwich should see some grime music. They promoted a night, persuading the band Roll Deep’s management that if they would come up to Norwich then they … Continue reading
Posted in And She Laughed No More
Tagged N-Dubz, Number 1, Takeover Ents, Tinchy Stryder
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Youth portrait
A likeness of the young Ulrike Meinhof from the sequence of fifteen paintings October 18, 1977 by Gerhard Richter, one of the great photo-realist painters. It’s like a school photo, a bit. That’s one thing I like about it.
I have characters floating in front of my eyes
Not impish foils, picaresques and gangster’s molls, but rather letters of the alphabet, semi-colons and tpyos. I am well behind on the work in progress and am working like stink on games that were played as long ago as last … Continue reading
Posted in And She Laughed No More, She Stood There Laughing
Tagged football, Nigel Worthington, Norwich City, Premiership, Stoke City
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Jack’s Silver Disc
He came round with his girlfriend to have dinner, watch that amazing 4-4 draw between Liverpool and Arsenal, and had this tucked under his arm to show us. It’s for 200,000 sales : what an amazing thing. Jack and his … Continue reading
He went twelve rounds with all his mates earlier on
in a two-hours-in-the-park type situation. This is the state of him now: at half-past-six, if it isn’t already happening, then he is normally mithering like crazy for his second walk; not today.
Number 1
Tinchy Stryder’s new disc. Out today! (PG Warning – strobe ladies)
