roy | 25.10.2012 12:01

The hiatus was broken last Sunday – at a guess I would say it has been well over a year since my last demo. I burned a mock traffic and travel report to a CD in one of the studios at the Weybridge Radio Station after doing my regular Noughties and N ... read on

roy | 04.10.2012 11:54

That’s been the question on everyone’s lips ever since that fateful day in June 2012 when I finally got the keys to my flat.  Naming the day of my moving in has proved to be a very inexact science – t ... read on

roy | 10.08.2012 11:47

There is absolutely no getting away from it, especially if you live in and around London. So how are you’re Olympics going? In my case, the answer is a lot better than I thought! Good games?During the run up to the London 2012 games I was getting se ... read on

roy | 10.07.2012 17:20

The answer to the above is ….sort of, though it has to be said it has been a long time coming. After years of prevarication, it was the start of 2012 that I really seriously started looking. Just over six months later it finally happened – I ... read on

roy | 16.06.2012 03:40

Good to see you all again! Due to an astonishingly bad period of writers block, the things I am on about now occurred a few weeks back, around the start of June. It seems an age since my trip to Palma. I went with an old sc ... read on

roy | 03.02.2012 18:11

Possibly. I’m not saying it was my greatest day ever or anything like that, but compared to the usual course of events it was definitely up there as one of the best ones in recent times, which probably says a lot about my life!Things really started ... read on

roy | 13.01.2012 13:30

The time to go back was almost upon me. It was the last day of my break. Whilst I’ve got no fundamental dislike of my job, going back to work after a month off was never going to be easy, so I was determined to make the most of my last Sunday of fre ... read on

roy | 01.01.2012 15:54

How did your celebrations go? Mine turned out to be a bit of a mixed bag.I started things off with the family where we were joined by a couple of other people who came around for a bit of food and a drink, and then a few hours before the Big Ben chimes we ... read on

roy | 25.11.2011 12:58

Cynics say it gets earlier every year. If, like me, you work voluntarily for a certain radio station in the Kingston area, they may actually have a point – for us Christmas is celebrated in January! Before you say it, this is not woefully bad mistim ... read on

roy | 02.10.2011 15:08

I hope they do. Really. I basically need approval – and if it isn’t obtained, I will lose out big time. If you’ve read my ramblings before you will know that this scenario pretty well occurs every year, usually around this time. I have l ... read on

roy | 11.08.2011 16:59

Food for the mind...It was one of those places I had passed by many times before without noticing. Why it had suddenly blipped up on the old personal radar now is anyone’s guess – perhaps I just had a bit more time to take things in. This all ... read on

roy | 02.08.2011 16:28

I am sure you have all heard of the term ‘deja vu’. I guess this is more of a case of history repeating, and I am not talking about the coffee…You may recall my past ramblings about a cafe in Leatherhead that I used to frequent very reg ... read on

roy | 28.07.2011 17:35

This painful episode happened to me a few weeks back. Whilst not exactly traumatised by the following events they did leave their mark on me, in more ways than one… ... read on

roy | 07.07.2011 13:29

The text came late that Wednesday afternoon. It was from my mate who wanted to know if I could give him a lift to New Malden Station after our usual midweek beer/pool session that takes place at a pub in Tolworth. As New Ma ... read on

roy | 31.03.2011 11:43

The ongoing saga of the Kingston Voluntary Organisation continues...For those of you who don't know, the Kingston Voluntary Organisation that I have been a member of for more years than I can remember has been off air for way too long - last May a planned ... read on

roy | 18.02.2011 12:56

If you are thinking of organising a social event or activity on Valentine’s Day, it is very important that you remember these wise words - just don't bother! It may sound a bit bitter and twisted, but it is based on real life experience, that is, wh ... read on

roy | 19.01.2011 11:59

It's just happened, and let me tell you it's been a long time coming -  if you want time scales, it has been just over seven months, or just over half a year if you want to get scary about it. There has finally been some positive news about the Kings ... read on

roy | 18.01.2011 16:43

It's only a couple of weeks late, but I have always been a believer in the old adage better late than never. Tonight I am off to the sunny climbs of Worcester Park to celebrate my birthday. This actually happened shortly after the New Year festivities (wh ... read on

roy | 05.11.2010 13:27

Just in case any of you out there are of a nervous disposition I had better say now that I mean 'bombed out' in the social disaster kind of sense, not that there is some sort of second gunpowder plot. No. No way. What I'm on about is the fact that Bonfire ... read on

roy | 28.10.2010 13:24

I guess you've all heard of De Ja Vu, and it accurately sums up what I am feeling at the moment - I am one of the sizeable number of SW Londoners who rent their homes. I have always felt renting was the only real option open to me, the main reason bei ... read on