The Life and Opinions of Andrew Rilstone

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 I got a review! Obviously I didn’t get straight off the train from Exeter and hop on a bus from Temple Meads to Wells to join some shanty-a...

Final day.  I am dictating this into my Iphone on a train. Apple notes has a built in speech-text feature, so what could possibly go wrong? ...

Who was it who said that travel infantilises you? Like a toddler, you suddenly find that you have to specifically plan and take account of y...

 I carelessly left my keyboard in the café. They kept it for me, of course, and the coffee-making lady said she had been asking if anyone kn...

 — Panel about Widicombe Fair. There are lots of versions. — Anchor/Middle Bar Singaround. Lots of singing.  — Concert: Joshua Arnold (stran...

No, I am sorry. A blossom is at best a potential cherry. An egg yolk is the possibility of a chicken. You might as well say that a book that...

Today I have been mostly listening to legends. Lunchtime — Martin Simpson! Played his twiddly bluesy slide guitar and sang a song about a tr...

First full day of festival…..  Coffee and bacon roll in cafe. Bumped into my Recently Ennobled Folk Friend. (Lady in cafe greets him as ‘Sir...

Overheard outside Sidmouth YMCA: “Daddy, do you suppose they named it after the song?” Quite a long way into conversation with a man in the ...

  It turns out that there is Another Shop, which sell Everything Except Tent Pegs. I do, however, refuse to spend £10 on a water bottle, par...

I am in the Rincon cafe .  T he shop which sells absolutely everything, opposite, has closed. How will I pick up the things i din’t pack or ...

  Aristide Twain One of many problems with the concept of a Doctor Who reboot is that it can't sustain. The temptation to have the New D...

  “But I rather think that ‘I am special because I met the Doctor’ is generally code for ‘We are special because we are Doctor Who fans’: an...

  Aristide Twain “There has been one (1) successful Doctor Who spin-off, namely, the Sarah-Jane Adventures,” Well, on television. In prose ...

  Scurra It will be called Doctor Who and it will be Doctor Who. Just like the 1963 version, the 1996 version and the 2005 version are all D...

 This week I am writing intelligent replies to the comments my Fans made about my last Doctor Who article. "Seven years later Paul McGa...

Patreon exclusives, which may eventually club together and form a book.... Liar Piece I have started doing morning pages again. Anyone who h...

  If there has always been a photograph of the King on the wall of a particular school, then only a very strong republican would want us to ...