Continuing my journey from Southport (in the North West) to Brighton (on the South coast), I walked from Stafford station to Wolverhampton – the town where I lived between 1986 and 1999. On the way I saw a sinister picture of a dog-like creature, sunk beneath the River Sow; had an Alice-like glimpse of the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘stafford’
Everything with you – Stafford to Wolverhampton
Posted in Accounts of the walk, tagged newhampton, real ale, stafford, staffordshire and worcester canal, wolverhampton on August 3, 2008 | 13 Comments »
Beer-to-beer networking: Stone to Stafford
Posted in Accounts of the walk, tagged beer festival, camra, spoons, stafford, staffordshire, stone, trent and mersey, wetherspoons on July 6, 2008 | 3 Comments »
The first Velvet Underground song I ever heard was Beginning to See the Light, played on the John Peel show around 1977. In it, Lou Reed babbles exuberantly about ‘Wine in the morning/And some breakfast at night’. Having a cooked breakfast washed down with a pint of IPA in a Wetherspoons pub at 9.30 in [...]