Author: davidlewis

There is a light…

— Posted inPhotography — 1 min read

On a walk near Okehampton, Devon, came across this tunnel under the main road. It’s main function is to allow cattle to be moved from one field to another safely, but also part of the cycle and walking path. #okehampton https://pixelfed.social/p/dvdlws/736645863742646158

The Bristol Bus Boycott

— Posted inGeneral — 1 min read

Today is the anniversary of the Bristol Bus Boycott, a protest against the Bristol Omnibus Company and the TGWU trade union’s refusal to employ Black or Asian bus crews. At the time it was legal to discriminate in employment decisions based on race. The […]

Chocolate Eclairs

— Posted inFood — 1 min read

Was reasonably pleased with these considering it was the first time ever made them. Used this recipe from the BBC https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/chocolate-eclairs

Got To Have Soul

— Posted inMusic — 2 min read

In a world where rap music could lazily and racist labelled ‘the music of Black criminals,’ as BBC Radio 1 DJ called it, came the joyous, surreal world of De La Soul. Themed around the concept of a game show, 3 Feet High and […]

Sunset Blvd – Review

— Posted inFilm — 5 min read

It starts with just a street name and threatening ‘something has happened music’ We quickly learn it’s a murder. A man is floating in a swimming pool. We are promised the story of this man. The narrator knows it, fully. (Is this a hint […]

Subway (1985) – a Review

— Posted inFilm — 4 min read

Helena (Isabelle Adjani) arrives, walking down a cold, hard, dirty metallic stair, dressed in exotic evening wear, her hair a perfect stylistic mess. This is how to make a film entrance. She is ready for her close-up, Mr Bresson.  (Later in the same scene […]

Valentine’s Day

— Posted inStories — 3 min read

I was travelling on the metro when I saw this woman. The trip was long, long enough to imagine her story. There is an audio version at the end of the page. She was travelling home alone. There had been an argument and he’d […]

Speech Therapy

— Posted inGeneral — 1 min read

When I was a child I struggled to learn to speak. I was quick at those other skills that you might want a child to have: toilet trained, walking, I could even write my name (with both hands!) before I was able to speak. […]

Burns Night 2023 – Bannocks

— Posted inFood — 1 min read

Bannocks O' Bear Meal Bannocks o’ bear meal, Bannocks o’ barley, Here’s to the Highlandman’s Bannocks o’ barley. Robert Burns https://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/robertburns/works/bannocks_o_bear_meal/ As it's Burns Night, January 25, I've decided to make a traditional Scottish flatbread called bannocks. Why this bread? Well, Robert Burns wrote […]

Terry Hall

— Posted inMusic — 2 min read

One of the abiding memories of those of us of a certain age in 1981 is Terry Hall and company packed into a 1961 Vauxhall Cresta, driving past of the concrete wastelands of east London and telling us all about a ghost town where […]

Clootie Dumpling

— Posted inFood — 5 min read

Much as it may sound like a personal insult – ‘you’re such a clootie dumpling!’ – a clootie dumpling is in fact a traditional Scottish dessert, which gets its name, the clootie part at least, from the fact that the dumpling is made by […]