Parr’s Diary – (May) Thank heavens for the Glorious 16th!
It is easy to forget how close we live to the sea. Our cottage faces south, but is tucked into a fold of the West Dorset hills and we need to climb a few hundred feet in order to glimpse saltwater. Occasionally, with an inshore breeze, there is the faintest […]
Parr’s Diary – April 2017
It rained on the 30th. Not quite the persistent pour that had been forecast, but a significant drop nonetheless. This news shouldn’t really warrant a mention, but April has been desperately dry, certainly down here in Dorset. In fact, in my father’s garden, where he keeps a daily check on […]
Friday Allan’s Fangler (FAF) – May 2017
What colour are YOU? Thankfully, it should all be over by the time you read this. And it’s fair to say that we’ve not suffered Election Fever so much as a horrible, hacking cough. Political campaigns aren’t even dressed up these days – no pretence, let’s just hurl mud at […]
Wye oh Wye… Redmire to the rescue
“Spare any change mate? I need six quid for breakfast.” I give what I can, and the homeless man departs. That’s London prices for you. 7.30am, Sunday morning, Vauxhall station; a toxic junction of smell and sound that assaults the senses. Voices clash loudly, night owls mix with the morning […]
Friday Allan’s Fangler (FAF) – April 2017
Bag it up Fishpool spends most of his life dressed as nature intended. Unshackled from the suffocation of clothing and freed from the demands of modern society. This love of naturism was probably borne in the years that followed my modelling career. A decade spent strutting and pouting and being […]
The shop on Holy Street: Fallon’s Angler issue 9
None of us are strangers to unforeseen delays. As it is with trains, planes and so forth, so it is with publishing a magazine. We do our very best to avoid them, but there are many ways a spanner can be thrown, and we were hit by quite a few. […]
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