3PM Sunday 9 March 2014 Nunhead Heights Here in Britain, when the weather isn’t miserable it is called “glorious”. Glorious means the sun is shining for one entire day. It doesn’t take too much to make people here effuse about nice weather. When the weather is lovely the people don’t like to stay inside. There […]
8 AM 10 June 2012 Nunhead Heights There was a consultation over the past year on what do to with Southwark’s cemeteries. They are running out of space for burials, the Council told us. It’s an emergency. [To read the first article in the series “Will we regret cutting down the new forests of Southwark?” […]
3am Monday 14th May 2012 – Nunhead Heights The Manchester City and Manchester United football battle was so good this year I almost forgot that City are being bankrolled by a billionaire Arab oilman. His money created the best team in English football. I wanted to support City. They were the Brooklyn Dodgers or New […]
11:50pm Sunday 6 May 2012 Nunhead Heights Show me a hood whose father is a hood and I’ll show you a man whose father loved him. Show me sinner whose parents are “saints” and I’ll show man whose parents are no saints. If your parents love you, you’re gonna be like them. I believe this. My […]
8:30 PM Monday 30 April 2012 Nunhead Heights Tonight is the big match between Manchester United and Manchester City. I am supporting United. If I had been born in England I doubt I would have chosen to follow football. I found out too late that football is very “working class”. And I don’t like anything […]
4:30 AM 1 April 2012 Nunhead Heights. My youngest kid plays football at Athenlay in Nunhead on a Saturday – which is a very English way of saying he plays football on Saturdays. I mean, ‘on a Saturday’? On which Saturday is he playing, exactly? So a kid kicks and misses. Not my kid. My […]