Kit Hill & Callington
Kit Hill is a wild granite hilltop situated just outside Callington in the Tamar Valley which was just 3 miles away from where we lived at Edgecombe Way in St Ann’s Chapel in Gunnislake, from 1973 to 1975. Then as…
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The Buggles: Video Killed the Radio Star
The J G Ballard inspired Video Killed the Radio Star was an astonishing record back in October 1979, it sounded like the future and even today it feels like it is being beamed in from a different planet. And we…
Rainbow: Since You Been Gone
I can’t pretend to be a hard core fan of Rainbow, my story with the band very much began with their breakthrough single Since You Been Gone, a top 10 hit in 1979. It was one of those songs which…
Ginjinha de Óbidos
A year ago we were in Portugal for Half Term and one of the highlights of our trip was a visit to the stunning medieval village of Óbidos. It was not actually part of my meticulously planned itinerary. After saying…
Mum, Bath, Brora & Me
I have many happy memories of meeting Mum in Bath for shopping trips, where the retail therapy was only part of the attraction, it was all about eating, drinking and catching up, quality mother and son time. Peter wasn’t excluded…
51 Bailey Crescent, Poole
51 Bailey Crescent was a new build 3 bedroom semi-detached house and a step up the property ladder from Meadowbank Road, from two to three beds, and with a garage to boot. These were exciting family times in 1968 and…
The Police: So Lonely
The Police’s imperial phase as the biggest band in the world coincided almost exactly with my years at Highcliffe Comprehensive School, from 1978-1982. Only their final swansong album Synchronicity made it to my A level years of 1982-84 and the…
Nintendogs
Last week Jessica visited Malmsey with Charlie, for Peter to meet him for the first time. It was a lovely day and we all jumped in the Mini to have lunch at The Failand Inn, including an enormous fruit crumble…
15 Meadowbank Road, Fareham
I was born at Blackbrook House in Fareham, a Georgian residence turned maternity home in 1950, which also doubled as a training school for midwives. In the early noughties it started to suffer financial woes and closed for good in…
Simply Red: Something Got Me Started
Something Got Me Started had a spring in its stride from the first time I heard it in September ’91. There’s that’s playful opener: I love you/Show me Then it zips along before breaking out into that irresistible call and…