Angel Contemplating My Fate

Recently, I’ve felt moved to pen a few unreliable memories from my upbringing on Low Fell. The Gateshead borough which on its southern border, shared with Low Eighton and Birtley, resides one of the countries most iconic sculptures, the Angel of the North. When I left my parent’s three bedroom semi-detached home on Dorchester Gardens in 1987…

Selsey Bill or Bracklesham Bay, Love?

….. Save up their money for a holiday, to Selsey Bill or Bracklesham Bay. They’ll think about the future – when they’ll settle down. Marry the girl with one on the way…… A verse of Paul Weller prose written in the late 1970’s, from The Jam’s track Saturday’s Kids. Just one example of the songwriter’s numerous thought provoking anti-establishment…