Author Archives: j futrell

an end to paper!

Posted on October 11, 2023 by j futrell

After my experiences this year I have come to realise that frankly I can’t afford to go paper free. Like the next man or woman I care about the planet so much so that I am mulling over electric cars … Continue reading →

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The case for porkies – Harlyn House

Posted on August 2, 2023 by j futrell

  I knew I was going to like this place the second I heard Little Feat’s Dixie Chicken coming over the tannoy; one of several notable firsts at The Pig. That’s not entirely true because I knew I was going … Continue reading →

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It’s Good To Talk

Posted on July 12, 2023 by j futrell

The terrifying, if inevitable revelation that money expert Martin Lewis has been doppelganged, an online artificial intelligence (AI) likeness designed to defraud the millions of us who trust the media’s most respected economic adviser, was a wake up call to … Continue reading →

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In The Darkness Of The Road – Hearts Aglow

Posted on March 29, 2023 by j futrell

  One of my pleasures this past winter has been following twilight A roads with a sliver of magenta in the distant west and Weyes Blood (pronounced Wise Blood) sweeping aside all but the silent ocean, barren headlands and growing … Continue reading →

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Endelienta – Amen to that

Posted on October 17, 2022 by j futrell

Times are definitely changing. Take a recent music concert in which I was expected to say, after a brief initiatory prayer, ‘amen’.  The fact that I was in a church may have had something to do with the religious angle … Continue reading →

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Dirty Work

Posted on September 20, 2022 by j futrell

I am proud to announce that I have achieved another personal best: wearing the same shirt daily for nine days without washing, largely unstained and all but odourless. Previously I’d regularly managed four and half weekdays only changing into something … Continue reading →

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Too Old To Care

Posted on July 11, 2022 by j futrell

After a lot of thought I have come to realise the point of young people is they’re who I/we turn to when we can’t fathom how to master the simplest high tech, internet call it what you like electrical thingamajig. … Continue reading →

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Freedom From Flavours

Posted on May 31, 2022 by j futrell

Epiphany is probably too strong a word. Stepping back a shade it’s enough to state that yesterday I had a Cornish pasty for lunch. I know what you’re thinking, in this neck of the woods there are more pasties than you … Continue reading →

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For Sonia

Posted on March 11, 2022 by j futrell

  I can see her over 20 years ago when she will have been younger than I am now in a black one piece swimming costume, slender and erect. The waist of a model and the shoulders of an athlete … Continue reading →

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Taking To The Hills – Malvern

Posted on January 25, 2022 by j futrell

  The most significant change to my life since being dumped from The Sunday Times by a man with a name synonymous with lavatory cleaning is no longer automatically being shown the best room in the hotel. Nowadays I must … Continue reading →

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