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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘staffordshire’
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 »
Perpetual enjoyment: Keele to Stone
Posted in Accounts of the walk, tagged geo:lat=52.8973, geo:lon=-2.1467, geotagged, keele, staffordshire, staffs, stone, swan, swynnerton on July 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
We drove to Keele, listening to a programme about Bob Dylan (with Lenny Henry struggling to discover what all the fuss is about), which led me to force Jennie to listen to my favourite Dylan track Idiot Wind: ‘blowing every time you move your mouth, Blowing down the backroads headin’ south.’ Which we were. Jennie [...]