Our Albion

Old tools

The sweat of ages storing wisdom in their handles…

You can polish a piece of timber by rubbing it with a piece of leather. It takes a long time and is a pretty pointless exercise given the world of polishes and other finishes out there, but it can be…

Grumbleground

An earthquake hit London!

Flaming heck!

I looked down at the street and saw…

Why you should take good advice from wherever it comes

And feel free to give it too…

When 500 nails is not enough

They don’t sell nails by weight any more, and they’re not nails

Was Prince a Sexy MF, or a My Little Pony?

Sexy muthaf@©ker, sexy muthaf@©ker, shakin it down, shakin…

Four things you don’t see every day on the streets of London

But you may wish you did

Ham and pineapple pizza is a breakfast food

and four other things you didn’t know about me, until now

Cock Up

When the wheels of justice fall off the chariot

I had been in the room for three hours. I was glad I’d brought a book to read.

A woman wearing a backstage pass entered, looked at me, was surprised, checked carefully for anyone else…