A sticking plaster on a severed thumb

As will be evident to anyone browsing this site, I am passionate about non-League football. On Tuesday night, I wrote to my MP, Sir George Howarth, to ask him to lobby the Department of Culture, Media and Sport to #LetFansIn to non-League matches. My original...

A Football Club in Prescot

During Lockdown, I’ve been working on a number of projects. One has been researching our Family Tree, while another has been designing a paperback book, then helping to turn it into a reality. A Football Club in Prescot covers the first 50 years in the life of...
The train now standing at Platform 2…

The train now standing at Platform 2…

My local station, Kirkby, is an unremarkable one in many ways but is possibly unique in being a Terminus for both the most reliable train operator in the country and the least. If you board a train from Platform 1, you’ll be on a Merseyrail service to Liverpool...

Stories from Everywhere

I am proud to have obtained an Honours Degree with the Open University. My last module was called Advanced Creative Writing and at the end of the course, students from around the UK contributed to an anthology of writing completed during the module. This anthology...

Kicking things off

There’s an old saying: ‘a builder’s house is never finished’. I know how that feels; I built my first website in 1996, yet only now am I putting together a few pages about myself. There is a restlessness within me. My mum used to issue dire warnings about what would...