For 10 years, York has been my home. Give it another year, and I’m hoping I’ll be gone. (Don’t get me wrong now. I love the place. However….rest of the world, and all that). Yet there’s much to see in York…
Posts Tagged ‘york’
When To Keep Going
How far would you get if you just kept going?
An Uncomfortable Truth
Earlier in the week, I was enjoying being uncomfortable again. Comfort is a concept I’m not…comfortable with (damn my language and its grammatical quicksands). Comfort is a state of being you should probably only dip into, to enjoy with a contrasting experience in the forefront of your memory. You stamp the snow off your boots, [...]
Hornsea, Askance
Hi. I’m a 38 year old man, living at home with his mum. (Until she’s recovered from her recent surgery. Probably returning to York this time next week). Walking through town last night, I squinted until everything was blurry – until it was 1998 again, the last time I lived here. I listened to someone [...]
Waiting To Be Replaced
Today might be the day I get replaced.
Them Be The Days, Me Hearties
Writing is a serious business. We writers have a moral and spiritual obligation to our peers and our readers to strive for the utmost sobriety of tone and to stick to the facts clinically and empirically without unnecessary rhetoric digression or lack of intellectual focus and rigour. So I’m told. Anyway, if you’re a student [...]
Go Home Again: 4 Ways To Love Where You Are
One of the best points of any journey? The second day back home. It’s like this. Being wise, you’ve taken an extra three or four days off work for a post-holiday holiday, just enough time to battle jet-lag and sort through the mail. The first day is all about sleeping – and on the second [...]
BASIC Instinct: Going Loopy In Doorways
Yesterday, I wandered into a visual FOR-NEXT loop. It’s not a kind of roundabout. It’s also not a trap made by nimble-fingered Boy Scouts (although it is a kind of snare, shaped exactly like your brain). It’s much more dangerous than that.
Foundations
There’s one rule you should always follow when dining out in York, and it’s this: look up. My home city is head-scratchingly complicated. Thinking of opening a restaurant within the walls of York? Welcome to a heritage minefield, where you can’t unlatch a window without applying for planning permission first. Everything around you is deeply [...]
