Escape in Northampton town centre
This is AJ the escapologist performing in at the Cobbler’s Last statue in Northampton town centre last week. Here is some edited footage of his act. His full act [...]
Northampton
The best thing I’ve ever seen at the theatre
If I start out with a header like ‘The best thing I’ve ever seen at the theatre’ I know I’m being misleading straight away. It’s a woolly [...]
This is me: my X-box makeover
This is me in X-Box world. My sons have been nagging me to ‘sort out’ my avatar for some time and this morning I finally did it (catching up on all those urgent [...]
A thing I cannot describe
I can’t say exactly what my big achievement of the day was but I achieved it with a petrol driven strimmer and sustained a number of small, satisfying injuries along [...]
Congratulations to the Rev Richard Coles
I’m not a graduate myself so I don’t properly understand the honorary something that the Rev Richard Coles is being given by Northampton University this week but [...]
I used a steam iron but not in a steam punk way
I’m back on my travels tomorrow, three days in Portsmouth talking digital first publishing and social media then a day in Hastings doing the same. I’ve managed to [...]
Is the wall finally ready for rebuilding?
We’ve done some digging and clearing and hopefully, finally, got the wall ready for the builder to make a start on Monday morning. Ralph and The Jesus Army did most of [...]
This weekend
Our back garden deserves some kind of a medal for reaching the state where it now needs mowing… … and clearing, and its wall rebuilding and so on. In the meantime [...]
Festival of Chaos
I came out of Northampton’s Royal and Derngate theatre complex tonight thinking about blood and weddings and what songs are really for and what knives are really for [...]