When my dad was a young boy, he’d see adverts in Marvel comics for something called Tootsie Rolls . These are small, chewy, toffee-lik...

At the Austin Beer Garden Brewery , a country band is playing. Sillhouettes of the occasional cowboy hat stand out amongst the crowd. B...

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Off the top of your head, what associations do you have with New Orleans? Jazz, perhaps, which originated there; Tennessee Williams’ A Str...

The following is my contribution to The Session #133, hosted by Gareth at Barrel Aged Leeds . This month's theme is 'Hometown Gl...

Last week, I received an exciting package. Contained within was the first freebie I have accepted (alright, the first I've been off...

I've already written and deleted several paragraphs in which I try to summarise a tumultuous 2017, each time concluding that nobody a) n...