Diary, October 2005 Blog: Edited, June 2025 – February 2026 PART TWO: ART GALLERIES & A BOAT TRIP DAY TWO Friday12/10/2005ART GALLERIES I woke up around six in the morning. The jetlag had messed with my body clock. I looked out of my hotel window; we certainly didn’t pay for the view…hotel trash cans (as… Continue reading ‘JARMIN IN THE BIG APPLE’
‘JARMIN IN THE BIG APPLE’
Diary, October 2005 Blog: Edited, June – October 2025 PART ONE ‘A TRIP OF A LIFETIME’ We all have our ‘bucket lists’, and going to New York was right up there on mine. The architecture, music, and the movies of the city, have been a continued big inspiration on my own creativity. So, experiencing the… Continue reading ‘JARMIN IN THE BIG APPLE’
‘RED & BLUE DREAMS COME THROUGH,
(A Sunny Day Out In Cardiff, May 2004)’ Written and Edited, January-May 2025 I started this blog back at the beginning of January 2025. The only expectations for this current season, 2024-2025, were that we, Crystal Palace, would stay out of the relegation zone, and be in the English topflight for another year. However, as… Continue reading ‘RED & BLUE DREAMS COME THROUGH,
‘AN ATTRACTION FROM AFAR’
Written May 2000. Revised and Edited November 2024 This piece was originally written, arguably, when I had plenty of time on my hands. Before my current job, I spent eight and a bit year on the dole. Throughout this period, I was single and not so much mingling. As much as I wanted, and tried,… Continue reading ‘AN ATTRACTION FROM AFAR’
‘GUILTY UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY’
Started August 2002, completed and edited May 2024 In the early part of this century, there were a couple of news stories that gripped the nation, fed by an insatiable mainstream media. This is a piece of writing I started at the time (summer 2002), but never got around to completing. Whichever way you look… Continue reading ‘GUILTY UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY’
"Drop-in and Chill Out" 