by Jack Barrow | Sep 30, 2020 | General Silliness, R2D2
R2D2 is sad now. After lockdown came to its end I decided that I’m going to move to Colchester to be nearer my muse. Not seeing each other for three months will do that for you and it seemed to encourage my romantic side. Of course announcing that I’m...
by Jack Barrow | Mar 11, 2020 | General Blog, General Silliness, reviews
For those of you in the know, and you know who you are, you’ll be aware that BBC Radio 4 is the soundtrack of my being. All of life is on Radio 4, which makes it a pretty big platform. Everything you want to know about news and current affairs, the greatest drama,...
by Jack Barrow | Jan 30, 2020 | General Blog, General Silliness, Non Fiction, Travelogue
A few weeks ago, we went to Bournemouth, I say we went to Bournemouth, we actually went to Wimborne but in the two or three days we were there we visited Bournemouth twice and only really slept in Wimborne. I say it was a few weeks ago, Christmas was a few weeks ago,...
by Jack Barrow | Jan 6, 2020 | General Silliness, R2D2
After a relatively well-behaved holiday season R2D2 was rewarded with a trip out to see The Rise of Skywalker on Saturday night. He’s been increasingly bothersome since we got back from the visit to relatives over Christmas and I’d just about had enough. My muse and I...
by Jack Barrow | Dec 31, 2019 | General Silliness, R2D2
Well, we’ve got as far as New Year’s Eve and R2D2 has been behaving himself. He had a good Christmas, although he did try to sneak away with my prawn cocktail before I took him off the table and put him on the windowsill where he couldn’t be tempted to interfere with...
by Jack Barrow | Dec 24, 2019 | General Silliness, R2D2
My muse and I have come away for our annual family Christmas break and, naturally, R2D2 had to come with us. C3PO has gone away for the duration of the holiday, who knows where. When I asked when he would be back, he shrugged in that way that only droids can. I got...
