SUNDAY 1 Shirley took us on a day out to Brighton in her new-fangled electric car so we could collect some belongings from the Brighton apartment to bring back to London. We lunched in The Regency after a seafront stroll and spotted the comedian Mark Steel doing likewise. In Brighton with Shirley Mark Steel at … Continue reading Diary: October 2023. Uncut
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: September 2023. Uncut
There’s a fast-food outlet in New Cross Gate called Gateway Chicken
Diary: August 2023. Uncut
It just started raining space debris
Diary: July 2023. Uncut
Still struggling with French pronouns.
Diary: June 2023. Uncut
'Even people in wheelchairs had a fight on to see a painting.'
Diary: May 2023. Uncut
'Jaq and Lynne have bought a Bongo (the Mazda motorhome, not the antelope or the drum).'
Diary: April 2023. Uncut
Is Rishi going soft on Brexit?
Diary: March 2023. Uncut
Marxism is being rebranded as "degrowth communism"
Diary: February 2023. Uncut
“One of our friends recently described me as a ‘cultural disruptor’”
Diary: January 2023. Uncut
"One of the contestants on Pointless said their name was Alexa..."