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t and some cookery skip to content home about about books older posts walking with ollie posted on july 24 2011 by stephen foster many thanks to all of you who have expressed your condolences they have been a comfort in this terrible time i m closing correspondence here but i ll leave you with words from the man himself he ll be walking with ollie now trezza the time nears when ollie receives his clean bill of health each day for the past few weeks we have been jogging together in parkland still using the leash just to get him moving a bit faster to warm his muscles all this enforced proximity has finalised our bond he has actually come up to my office and wagged his tail he sits under my desk when i type and sometimes he licks my bare feet which can only mean they taste nice very soon the moment will arrive when his normal life returns i am itching to slip the ring and let him go because there are two things i have missed during the period of his confinement more than i would have imagined possible one is watching him run the other is walking with him out in nature seeing him free and being free myself from walking ollie by stephen foster posted in uncategorized comments off on walking with ollie coming soon posted on june 13 2011 by stephen foster possibly in a new jacket views pls posted in the final tagged fa cup final manchester city stoke city 32 comments long time no poem posted on june 11 2011 by stephen foster the whitsun weddings by philip larkin 1922 1985 that whitsun i was late getting away not till about one twenty on the sunlit saturday did my three quarters empty train pull out all windows down all cushions hot all sense of being in a hurry gone we ran behind the backs of houses crossed a street of blinding windscreens smelt the fish dock thence the river s level drifting breadth began where sky and lincolnshire and water meet all afternoon through the tall heat that slept for miles inland a slow and stopping curve southwards we kept wide farms went by short shadowed cattle and canals with floatings of industrial froth a hothouse flashed uniquely hedges dipped and rose and now and then a smell of grass displaced the reek of buttoned carriage cloth until the next town new and nondescript approached with acres of dismantled cars at first i didn t notice what a noise the weddings made each station that we stopped at sun destroys the interest of what s happening in the shade and down the long cool platforms whoops and skirls i took for porters larking with the mails and went on reading once we started though we passed them grinning and pomaded girls in parodies of fashion heels and veils all posed irresolutely watching us go as if out on the end of an event waving goodbye to something that survived it struck i leant more promptly out next time more curiously and saw it all again in different terms the fathers with broad belts under their suits and seamy foreheads mothers loud and fat an uncle shouting smut and then the perms the nylon gloves and jewellery substitutes the lemons mauves and olive ochres that marked off the girls unreally from the rest yes from cafés and banquet halls up yards and bunting dressed coach party annexes the wedding days were coming to an end all down the line fresh couples climbed aboard the rest stood round the last confetti and advice were thrown and as we moved each face seemed to define just what it saw departing children frowned at something dull fathers had never known success so huge and wholly farcical the women shared the secret like a happy funeral while girls gripping their handbags tighter stared at a religious wounding free at last and loaded with the sum of all they saw we hurried towards london shuffling gouts of steam now fields were building plots and poplars cast long shadows over major roads and for some fifty minutes that in time would seem just long enough to settle hats and say i nearly died a dozen marriages got under way they watched the landscape sitting side by side an odeon went past a cooling tower and someone running up to bowl and none thought of the others they would never meet or how their lives would all contain this hour i thought of london spread out in the sun its postal districts packed like squares of wheat there we were aimed and as we raced across bright knots of rail past standing pullmans walls of blackened moss came close and it was nearly done this frail travelling coincidence and what it held stood ready to be loosed with all the power that being changed can give we slowed again and as the tightened brakes took hold there swelled a sense of falling like an arrow shower sent out of sight somewhere becoming rain posted in sculpture for the sad kid tagged philip larkin 10 comments coming soon posted on june 7 2011 by stephen foster on the manchester city bench mancini offers his assistant a sweet it looks like a fruit pastille they are playing balotelli on the left wing he is a striker and now here he is again gathering a pass on the dead ball line jinking stroking it back to a team mate he has mesmerising balance and a horrible sang froid his hair is a tight rectangular mohawk already he is sweating up but that means nothing another corner to them and he and walters are at it again this time balotelli getting a little rattled as walters makes a stronger effort to let him know he s there in his face balotelli turns on him tells him to fuck off the ball is cleared to the half way line but the relief is temporary here they come again they are developing a slow wave of attacks now it is the turn of their left back kolorov a serb in the 13 shirt my lucky number a horse in the 13 cloth in green silks at a big price in ireland will often help you out to surge forward and to skid the ball low into our six yard box where shawcross dives in late and deflects it into the side netting with an outstretched leg ooooh the moan is low from many angles it looked an own goal another corner to them balotelli and walters getting to know each other better and better posted in the final tagged fa cup final manchester city stoke city 10 comments east anglian book awards posted on june 6 2011 by stephen foster have you had a novel or collection of stories published that is are predominantly set in east anglia we are looking for entries details of the judges here the book must be published between for the first time between august 1 2010 and july 31 2011 the other categories and the entry details are to be found on this link east anglian landscape winterton on sea posted in are you with me tagged east anglian book awards edp jarrolds 5 comments impartial beeb posted on june 4 2011 by stephen foster i ve never seem anything like the coverage of yesterday s epsom derby what happened was this the queen owned the favourite carlton house carlton house ran well and came third so was beaten by two horses one of which pour moi the actual winner was delivered with a blistering late run in which he made up at least four lengths in an eighth of a mile his jockey 19 year old sasha distel a like mikael barzelona stood up in his stirrups and raised his persuader in victory before the horse had even crossed the line and while he was the merest of short heads in front he effectively pulled the handbrake on the animal while the second horse still appeared to have a chance of collaring him it was a sensational piece of sportsmanship and horsemanship which positively reeked of sang froid mikael s antics were later to be characterised as exactly that and as foolish unseemly and dangerous to the animal all of which is nonsense it was marvelous had pour moi belonged to the her majesty the queen then barzelona s ride would have been hailed as the finest piece of riding in living memory as things stood the only surprise was that no one called for him to be taken to the tower the ensuing post race analysis turned into a post mortem and rather took on the atmosphere of a wake presenter clare balding who had earlier impartially twitted every time i think about the reality of the queen winning the derby i get a rush of nerves butterflies adrenalin this is why i love my job could scarcely prevent herself from blubbing at the iniquity of the outcome and then she had to interview the winning connections a gig which normally lasts a minute but to which she devoted two whole seconds and then she had to oversee the presentation of the trophy at which she did a terrific impression of a lady in waiting trying not to throw her breakfast up as they re ran the tape pundits queued up to explain to us poor baffled loyal subjects what the hell had happened the queen s horse had been forced to run wide because of the path that it took those dastardly french except pour moi had run even wider while barzelona took a look at the place and both horse and rider were always behind carlton house until the moment it mattered how they had managed to impede the royal animal from there was totally unfathomable in the end willie carson summed the whole scandal up i have to admit it he said sadly the best horse won it was by a distance the most craven sports coverage i have ever seen disrespectful of a magnificent sporting performance and disrespectful to a field of twelve further animals jockeys trainers connections the lot the name of the second horse was never once mentioned treasure beach 25 1 was relegated to a silent footnote in the narrative of the whole tawdry fix posted in the final tagged bbc bbc impartiality carlton house clare balding epsom derby fix pour moi willie carson 9 comments now then posted on june 4 2011 by stephen foster if i can just find those porsche keys i can call round on venus and do the full thelma and louise posted in the final tagged aphrodite 4 comments bacchus posted on june 3 2011 by stephen foster the alternative name for dionysus who was the god of the grape harvest winemaking and wine and of ritual madness and ecstasy in greek mythology he has had a mention in the forthcoming book he is exactly the sort of stokie who could forget he owned a porsche second century roman statue of dionysus after a hellenistic model posted in the final tagged bacchus dionysos 15 comments iconic prescient eulogy song posted on june 2 2011 by stephen foster i never mentioned much on the passing of gil scott heron earlier in the week he was a key artist for me in the eighties representing a number of essential musics and ideals he was the godfather of hip hop a jazz singer a soul man a poetic political protester winter in america is the best of these songs for me a proper elegy it will make you cry he was very cool too of course like drug addicts can be when red ken was in charge of the glc he had a habit of setting up free gigs on the south bank just across the river from the houses of parliament expressly designed to inflame maggie norman st john stevas and the daily mail i saw gil scott heron and the midnight band down there a couple of times and to my left welcome brian jackson on flute you don t here that one at too many gigs and on one of these occasions gsh himself smiled at me no i didn t imagine it he really did i was a twenty year old in a trilby on a summer s day i wrote my first published work about him a letter to the nme and at my height of dope smoking i listened to his album reflections a thousand times i can still recite the thing if you like b movie is the great tune i am sad he has gone but he has taken everything a man can take in his time and that will always cut you down short sometimes artists are just like that because that s the way they are he has left a piece of himself behind a real legacy can you ask for more posted in from working class hero to absolute disgrace a memoir tagged gil scott heron 3 comments coming soon posted on june 1 2011 by stephen foster in the second half on the seventieth minute the mood changed a cold white panic swept through the crowd as the young arsenal player jack wilshere went in on pennant with his studs up our winger took exception to this by shoving his forehead into wilshere s face it was not exactly a headbutt but these moments are judgement calls and it could easily be interpreted as such it was not a certainty for a sending off but that was a definite possibility and if the possibility came to pass then pennant would be suspended for the final here was a disaster in the making a turn of events that would strip us of half of our available width and flair and as things stood we could be without the other half anyway matty etherington was on the treatment table where he d been for a couple of weeks there was nothing in stoke on trent that was causing more concern than the state of the left winger s hamstring the confrontation between wilshere and pennant took place on the touchline right in front of us shawcross came over to speak to the referee we could not hear what he said but anyone could guess it s the fa cup final you ll be putting him out of ref please hands together gesture of prayer please don t do that as he awaited his fate and the crowd held its breath pennant put on a virtuoso cameo along the touchline he is slight he has many tattoos including a selection that rise from his neck he is rather beautiful and he is very cool he is so rich that he forgot he owned a porsche which he had left behind him down in spain one change of outfit into a sequined bodysuit and he could step directly into a british seventies soul band his cameo consisted of an exasperated mime along the touchline he was being persecuted here for sure for being ex arsenal for the goal he had already scored for the one he had set up for having the nattiest hair but be that as it may most crucially and beyond any reasonable doubt he was innocent the ref fingered his card pocket and went walkabout posted in the final tagged fa cup final manchester city stoke city 30 comments older posts august 2026 m t w t f s s 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 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