Word up

Well, this has been an interesting year, hasn’t it? Look, it’s a pretty rough time, we all know that, but wallowing isn’t going to help anybody, so try let’s try and be positive, okay? To keep myself somewhat sane, and direct my energies to something constructive, I’ve spent the last several months growing this Notflix…

A Typical London Argument

The altercation, as transcribed exactly by your correspondent, with neither editing, censor nor commentary, occurred between three persons at the Docklands Light Rail station in Shadwell, a district in the Borough of Tower Hamlets, East London. It is the belief of the writer that what follows is the direct realisation and representational analogue to those most…

Cooking George Orwell’s Long Lost Kidney Stew Recipe

On the day following King George V’s Silver Jubilee celebrations, 6th May 1935, George Orwell took a break from writing A Clergyman’s Daughter to type a letter to his friend and one-time romantic interest, Brenda Salkeld. Among Orwell’s usual topics of discussion (politics, literature, and low-culture) the author outlined what he described as a “wonderful” ox-kidney…

Impressions of poverty – A Dublin Story

If you’ve ever listened to the song Running to Stand Still from U2’s Joshua Tree album you will have heard about the Dublin neighbourhood of Ballymun in the lyric, “I see seven towers but I only see one way out.” Located on the northern periphery of Dublin city, Ballymun was at one time Ireland’s largest and…

Streaming now

Hello and seasons greetings to you all. I’ve barely posted this year as I’ve been spending most of my free time working on Notflix. The page appears to be doing rather well (with a daily high of around 17,000 visitors), and the whole thing has been a fantastic learning exercise. I created an Instagram page…

SEO focussed content marketing copy to accompany the brilliantly innovative digital campaign for our dental hygiene product

Our best in class, multiple award-winning SEO marketing consultant advises us that, while this blog post may lack any amount of what might be commonly labelled substance, it will nonetheless propel our organisation’s website into the search ranking big leagues. Forget about digital natives, our internationally recognised, conversion-led content strategy brainiac is nothing short of a pure-bred digital…

On the Isle of Mull

On a tour bus, lumbering along the winding and rain drenched roads across the Isle of Mull, off the west coast of Scotland. He’s taking photos through the condensation covered windows, she’s trying to sleep through her travel sickness. “It makes the landscape look like a rural version of a Turner painting” “Very good,” she…

Forget missed chances

When I first stepped off the tube for a job interview in Camden Town over a half a decade ago,  it’d be fair to say that I was less than immediately enamoured to the place . “A vastly unattractive part of London,” I called it. A grubby corner of North London, overcrowded with “punk/goth poseurs…

We were tired in Whitstable

We were tired and fattened and half drunk from dinner, but the early evening was warm and calm. Before the train back to London, we walked down along the shore to catch the last light that Whitstable Bay could spare. It was beautiful. We could have spent the night sleeping right there on the sand, but she’d already paid for the return tickets.