The world according to Kirkey
I turned Speedway hack for the evening after hearing the news that leading sportswriter, Speedway luminary and all round good-egg, Peter Oakes was feeling a tad under the weather. So, in homage to the great man, and in an effort to bring a smile to his usually cheery face, here is my attempt to capture … Read more
The 15-month enforced leave of absence was gloriously smashed when James Blunt ignited the Royal Albert Hall with a pulsating plasma that connected everyone inside of this most intimate of arenas. Fusing the new with some of the old, the self-effacing rock legend drank herbal tea, lamented the catching of COVID-19 and passing it on … Read more
I recently linked my in-car audio system to Spotify. How rock n’ roll am I? I often create my own montage of hits whilst thumping the steering wheel and singing aloud, or just humming when I don’t know the words. I’ll even fess up to getting a few lyrics totally wrong, although to be fair … Read more
Scratching my balls this morning, scrolling through the bollocks that is Facebook I came across a football post. To be more precise, a reminisce of Notts County. For those who have met me, or somewhat surprisingly have become my friend on Facebook and neither of us know how the fuck this actually happened, you will … Read more
I have licked several tasty things in my life. As a heterosexual male I can list my most favoured feminine hangouts, yet when it comes to my number one taste sensation it is wholly masculine in nature. I absolutely adore a Mr Whippy ice cream! Indeed, in applying the legal process of statutory interpretation I … Read more
“They are all at it! They all lie!” A statement that I have heard many times and recoiled from on every occasion. Firstly, how do you know? Have you met them all? Secondly, I doubt for one moment that this observation is statistically provable. Finally, why the fuck would you want a criminal representing your … Read more
Minding my own business should, on the face of it, be a pretty good way of avoiding the chaos of others. If only life was as simple as that. Suffice to say that recently this posture did not prevent me from being immediately sucked into a vortex of havoc, even though it wasn’t of my … Read more
Cutting a solitary figure, standing at the very edge of the now decommissioned dock in Belfast where the then largest movable structure on Earth ever built was launched one-hundred and nine years earlier, and over half a century before I was born, I looked as far out to sea as I possibly could. My isolation, … Read more
A strange malaise came across me before the opening game of the UEFA Euro 2020 Championship (hosted in 2021 because of the global pandemic) had even kicked off. I wasn’t at all interested in the tournament and especially in England. The place of my birth. This is seismic for me since the love of football … Read more
The older I get the more I realise that my late dad was right in his assertion that your school days are the best days of your life. I vividly recall how, at the time, I considered how silly this was, since being a schoolkid was hardcore. I had to do homework, get up early, … Read more