19 of the West Midlands’ sauciest streets
They say you can't draw a straight line through a map of Birmingham and the West Midlands without, well, crossing a line. Here's the proof.
Benched – extract from a one-act play
Recently-dumped Danny gets unsolicited relationship advice from an uncouth park bench
West Midlands Avengers: Shard Endgame
Meet Captain Midlands, Birmingham Iron Man, Solihull Thor, Coventry Hulk and Ward End Black Widow... together, they are The West Midlands Avengers!
Queensway the Hard Way
Tall tale from the 1990's of how a broken down car in Birmingham's Queensway tunnel brought a once-great city to it's knees. Features cheap jokes and some last-minute innuendo.
James Joyce’s Ulysses Part 2: Twolysses
Twolysses - the sequel to James Joyce's Ulysses. Contains low humour.
Typo Negative
Happy Halloween!
James Joyce: the Aston Villa Years
The untold story of Irish writer James Joyce and his doomed love affair with Aston Villa Football Club
The Grandfather Clock
April 24th is my youngest daughter's birthday. It would have been my Dad's, too. Here's something I wrote about the two of them.
Fantastic Beasts of Birmingham
Painstakingly-researched analysis of Birmingham-based mythological beasts (also includes Yampires, West Brombies and Werewolverhamptons)
“Boss” Tin
The second issue of Dirty Bristow magazine features a piece I wrote entitled Lennon’s Guide to the Mythical Fauna of the English Midlands. It’s my attempt at presenting an overview of those Birmingham-based mythological beasts that have so often been ignored by local historians, cryptozoologists and the presenters of Midlands Today.
Dirty Bristow Returns
UPDATE: PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF DATE - DIRTY BRISTOW #2 [...]
The Dirty Bristow ELO-ke
On Saturday night I'll be going to this: It's an [...]