Recent content by Doste

I see it as three phases in my life: 1. my 20s - too much drinking, mostly linked to after-work drinks or the live poetry/performance scene. This culminated in abuse and assault and had to stop 2. my 40s - with people in the Campaign for Real Ale, i.e. an excuse for sitting in the pub and...

They apparently couldn't be sure it was him, even though they'd arrested him and I gave them a detailed description of what happened.

I like print books but also have a Kobo e-reader. I used to read a lot of science fiction and fantasy but now I'm more of a generalist - the last novel I finished reading was The Empusium by Olga Tokarczuk, and also two novels by friends of mine which have appeared this year, A Particular...

No, I never did. The police eventually caught him but decided not to proceed and I never got anything back.

Dorich House, Kingston Hill, London

Most recently, having my life savings stolen by roofers who having massively overcharged me came back and threatened me for more. Before that, assault, abuse as a child, that kind of thing.

Coffee - one early in the morning and one later on, although I may have to cut down. Porridge, with dates and dried fruit in it.

It's around 23 deg C here and despite that being close to my favourite temp (20 to 23), I'm wondering if that's why I'm feeling tired. (could be dehydration really).

I tend to get deliveries and top them up with local supermarkets - my nearest one is currently changing from being a Morrisons to something else.

Original: One of my fave covers and which put me onto this band:

That is a very good idea. I have a pull-trolley but it isn't brilliant for tying things to (it needs bunjie cords, etc.) - I've carried items on it many times but they tend to slip off. Something like that would be useful.

I've stopped buying anything from Ama$on due to their practices. I still have an account but no payment method tied to it.

Thank you!

I'm still sorting out the photos as yesterday. One picture, taken some time in the late 1970s, was of a parish church in the very south-western corner of London, not a well-known building and quite out of the way - and it just so happens that I visited that very same church last weekend on a...

This seems to happen with so many things, like insurance companies doubling the premium without circumstances having changed - you phone them up and they reduce it to the old rate 'as a favour' i.e. the favour of not robbing you. Likewise Micro$oft 365 increasing the price to pay for AI that...