The Journal

I Needed a break. Away from Tier 2, potentially Tier 3. Staithes is my hideaway, calming place. It is honest. Nothing pretentious about the place or the people. A mix of village locals, long term s...

Only Sailors and Criminals........

To tattoo or not, it's your choice. 20% of all Britain's have chose to ink their skin, with that figure likely to rise steeply in the next 10 years. Strange when it involves a needle puncturing you...

Sauce & Brown Snowboard

Back from this year's snowboarding trip to Austria, barely unpacked and straight away I was looking for a snowboard. I scoured the second-hand market first, to no avail. I never wanted to be the gu...

Porthleven - Just another Cornish Village?

Cornwall. As a family we do it every year with the in-laws. Being 50 & sometimes grumpy, I have had my fill of Cornwall and its picturesque fishing villages, or so I thought. Port Issac, Mouseh...

An afternoon walking in the Peaks

Our little girls had their Trunkis packed and were making their way south on an adventure to Bewilderwood with their grandparents. We had a date day to ourselves as a bit of a break for my good lad...

HQ Post Lockdown

Lockdown has been strange for everyone but in terms of HQ it felt a little empty, not just literally. Waiting each day for the briefing became religion for us both as we tried to read between the l...

Good Morning Vietnam

Goooood Morning Vietnam. I woke early for my flight from Bangkok to Ho Chi Minh (Saigon) Vietnam. This was going to be my first time in the "Nam". I was sent to the Far East on a mission. Bangkok b...

Countryside

Thorpe Cloud - Derbyshire

I've not been too far during Lockdown, Anthony was manning HQ, so I decided myself and the family would take a ride out. My daughter has been on a school trip to Thorpe Cloud in the past and she su...

Lockdown Project - Pizza Oven

As some of us went into lockdown it came with uncertainty but we also gained some free time, social media pushed us to learn a language, do a Tik Tok dance or 100 press-ups a day. Option 4, build a...

What the F**K is Vinyl

What the fuck is Vinyl?This was a comment posted on FB which prompted me to write this.Born in the time when the swinging sixties were coming to an end, & music was everywhere. Good times.....a...