I am sure that people are annoyed with me banging on about Brexit. I am absolutely happy to accept the one that was promised – £350 million a week better off, no downside, continued access on trade with no tariffs and where they need us more than we need them. The “deal” that Johnson broughtContinue reading “The wildman, he laid the thunder down”
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They are in paradise
I am not a born Londoner. I had lived in Luton, Royston, Brightlingsea and Cambridge by the time I was 28. I had started working at Newham Sixth Form College in December 1992 (https://wordpress.com/post/fivemilesout.home.blog/922 ). I had anticipated a couple of years there and I would be able to find something closer to home. CommutingContinue reading “They are in paradise”
And our love become a funeral pyre
We left Ranthambore (https://wordpress.com/post/fivemilesout.home.blog/1749 ) by train with Dad and I both ill (as well as around twelve others out of our group of 27). They even overcharged us on the bar bills, I had managed to down several lagers while confined to my room with a terrible stomach. There was space on the trainsContinue reading “And our love become a funeral pyre”
On This Fantastic Day
Day 5 in Egypt was our one late alarm call – 8am, other days were 6am or even earlier (to beat the worst of the heat of or to travel). The boat was already moving away from Luxor when we woke up and, because there were no mosquitos, the windows were wide open and IContinue reading “On This Fantastic Day”
It’s 8.15 and that’s the time it’s always been
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark were (or are) a synth band from Liverpool. Mike was always a much bigger fan than me. I have to admit that I think that their output was much less good after their third album Architecture and Morality. Even on that album half the tracks were touched by genius andContinue reading “It’s 8.15 and that’s the time it’s always been”
Fuck them and their law
Is there anywhere in the UK that gets the bad rep that Essex does? We are stupid; have no taste; we all have spray tans, holiday in Marbella, shop at Lakeside and are obsessed with money. This started with the “Essex girl” jokes in the early 1990s, which were based on the erroneous assumption thatContinue reading “Fuck them and their law”
We Can’t Rewind We’ve Gone Too Far
Doctor Who has form with audio stories – back in the 70s there were some vinyl LPs, like an abridged Genesis of the Daleks. Then there are the missing stories (https://fivemilesout.home.blog/2020/08/29/like-the-deserts-miss-the-rain/ ) that the BBC released on cassette (sometimes with bizarre linking commentary) and then on CD. The weirdest bit was in The Daleks MasterContinue reading “We Can’t Rewind We’ve Gone Too Far”
The thunder of guns
AC/DC are an Australian band that started in the 1970s. I had no idea who they were as, like a lot of heavy metal bands, they did not have hit singles in the UK. Clive Hook lent me a load of their albums on tape in the early summer of 1981. Their early albums areContinue reading “The thunder of guns”
The mighty arms of Atlas
It was an early departure from Agra for Khajuraho. Dad and I were both still ill with stomach upsets. The train journey lasted three hours and it was pretty cramped. We disembarked onto a small coach with little overhead storage – there were only five spare seats and some members of our group needed twoContinue reading “The mighty arms of Atlas”
This world is only going to break your heart
I think that this is the sexiest song ever and I thought that before the scene in Friends. Ross had been obsessed with Rachel in High School and after she arrived in New York he had wanted to ask her out, but circumstances always conspired against him. By the time Rachel finds out he lovesContinue reading “This world is only going to break your heart”
Five Miles Out 