The last two days of walking have been triangulated against some kind of literature. The next will be no exception, as I am heading for Leighton Buzzard where, back in about 1974, I bought a book that has retained great meaning for me over the years – Conan of Cimmeria. This paperback, which I have [...]
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Conan in Bedfordshire
Posted in sidetrips, tagged atlantis, ballard, conan, encore, milton keynes, mk, moorcock, psychogeography, ramada, wetherspoons on July 5, 2009 | 2 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 [...]