by Thomas Bartlett | Feb 1, 2016 | #writing, Rugby, Scotland England, Uncategorised |
I’ve asked an old friend of mine Diarmid to write about the Six Nations. Unlike me Diarmid actually knows what he is talking about and is not just rehashing something “good” he heard someone else say. Today is his first piece on Scotland V England, a...
by Thomas Bartlett | Jan 31, 2016 | #writing, ABP, Ireland, meloncholy, modernlife, writing |
Some wildly inaccurate and generally smug musings about the Midlands from a train. In the Midlands much of the man-made features seem abandoned; half finished, or half started, depends on whether you feel like being charitable. It looks mostly flat. Hillocks, eddies,...
by Thomas Bartlett | Jan 29, 2016 | #ABP, #writing, ABP, current affairs, Fiction, France, paris, Romance, satire, thrillers |
Americans Bombing Paris Chapter 1 Paris Saturday November 9 2002 I stood on the balcony as the first planes came screeching and screaming in. Flying lower than they needed, to get a better look. The view must have been amazing. Plunging low, then high, undulating at...
by Thomas Bartlett | Dec 3, 2015 | #ABP, #writing, ABP, book, food, Ireland, life, restaurant, writing |
The last day I ever worked in a restaurant I was nearly burnt alive, and even more nearly took someone with me. It was definitely time to get out. And I have. But I still think about restaurants, like an ex I never fell in love with but I stayed with for a good part...
by Thomas Bartlett | Nov 25, 2015 | #ABP, #humour, #writing, Ireland, life, meloncholy, reading, war
Modern Life 3 – Everything is Amazing! No it isn’t. Neither is everything terrible. Warning: Hectoring and contradictory (like modern life). The human propensity to believe they are all something unique, living in an age of unprecedented x, y, z remains as strong as...
by Thomas Bartlett | Nov 3, 2015 | #ABP, #driving, #humour, #traffic, #writing, blog
Dublin Traffic. 3 Wrongs Don’t Make a Right. No facts have been consulted in the writing of this rant. Cyclists I’m a cyclist. And I say to my fellow cyclists, get off the footpaths. Seriously get off them. Don’t cycle on them. And sexist as this...