Tag: beer

  • Stockport, 30 Oct 2024

    Stockport, 30 Oct 2024

    As part of mine and my old schoolfriends continual exploration of suitable beer haunts in North West England, the magnetic compass this time had pointed to Stockport. Someone’s brother had done some drinking here before, but too long ago to mention. The rest of us had never previously graced any of its hallowed halls. Having…

  • Illuminating Hadrian’s Wall

    Drawn by the first-ever lighting of the 70-mile monument from end to end, thousands of visitors filled every local car park, lay-by and footpath, while helicopters and a NASA satellite recorded the necklace of beacons from above. I played my part!

  • Frustration

    Frustration

    In a kitchen setting where an artist was demonstrating tone on a Rembrandt study, via Zoom, an explosion was oddly unexpected. I ducked down. That’s the last Andy McNab I’ll ever read.