"Norwegians utter the term hapshittens when things go wrong"
Author: Billy Mann
I'm originally from Liverpool and worked as a national magazine journalist for more than 30 years before suffering a stroke at age 53. I started blogging as part of a neuro-rehabilitation programme and wrote the very first entries with one finger of my disabled left hand. Later, art became another therapy for me at Headway East London's Submit To Love Studios. I write about my daily activities and encounters. In 1988, I married Jane. We are still together today, sharing our lives and making each other laugh.
Diary: December 2024. Uncut
SUNDAY 1 Sutton is starting to look like the new Croydon. 📌 I must remember to at all times have with me some printed reading matter. We boarded the train from Sutton to Farringdon just in time. As the train pulled away from the station platform I realised I'd left my phone on Paula's bed. … Continue reading Diary: December 2024. Uncut
Diary: November 2024. Uncut
'The finished concoction looked like a large pan of sick'
Diary: October 2024. Uncut
TUESDAY 1 The Conversation has a very useful article for anyone who doesn't quite get the connection between Hezbollah and the government of Lebanon. I've always told people that to think of Hezbollah as a regular Islamic terror group is to miss the point. It is much more than that. 📌 It's always a treat … Continue reading Diary: October 2024. Uncut
Diary: September 2024. Uncut
'I came home from a dinner date with what my wife described as a gunshot wound'
Diary: August 2024. Uncut
'My favourite exhibit was of a fly settled and grooming itself atop a nipple, to the soundtrack of a suckling baby'
Diary: July 2024. Uncut
'At Alice's Summer Party Lena told me that Elly Space is alive and well' MONDAY 1 At around 85 minutes into the England versus Slovakia game last night I did a web search on the bookies odds for the next England manager, and the favourite was former Brighton manager Graham Potter. 📌 I think I … Continue reading Diary: July 2024. Uncut
Diary: June 2024. Uncut
'The D in D-Day stands for Day...' SATURDAY 1 The Conservative election campaign is starting to look interesting for all the wrong reasons. Rishi is proving to be as bad at talking to real people as he was at being a prime minister. He went to Belfast's Titanic Quarter and asked people if they thought … Continue reading Diary: June 2024. Uncut
Diary: May 2024. Uncut
One month as it happened… WEDNESDAY 1 The book I'm reading, A Gentleman in Moscow, features a man under house arrest in an elite hotel in Bolshevik Russia. He learns how to adapt to and shape his imprisonment, ultimately creating for himself an enriched and full life. The audiobook I fall to sleep to at the … Continue reading Diary: May 2024. Uncut
Diary: April 2024. Uncut
One month as it happened… MONDAY 1 Didn't spot a single April Fool. That could be a sign of the AI times we live in. BBC Radio 4 reported that a good number of British people still believe that spaghetti grows on trees, as revealed in a classic TV April Fool from 1957 that is … Continue reading Diary: April 2024. Uncut
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