21st Century
After The Goldrush (an historical reprise)
There was a band playing in my head And I felt like getting high I was thinking about what a friend had said I was hoping it was a lie 2021 started as many had [more…]
Articles by Colin Cross
21st Century
After The Gold Rush
I dreamed I saw the silver spaceships Lying in the yellow haze of the sun There were children crying and colours flying All around the chosen ones All in a dream, all in a dream [more…]
Arts
Protecting The NHS, Hepatitis C, Covid-19 and The Rest. A Personal Account
Sixty nine years ago, give or take a week or so, I was delivered into this world. My mother gave birth to me in what was then known as “the huts”, a collection of prefabricated [more…]
Arts
Staycation; A Postcard From The Cairngorms (Part Two)
Following our trip on Loch Ness on the Tuesday we went into Inverness to eat and get a beer, the food (a reasonable enough burger) was passable and the beer was by Innis & Gunn, [more…]
Arts
Staycation; A Postcard From The Cairngorms (Part One)
Having held out as long as we dare we eventually, and somewhat reluctantly, cancelled our planned return to the beautiful island of Zakynthos and set about looking for somewhere to visit a little closer to [more…]
Arts
Adventure In Rough Gardening (The Good Bits)
After an extended hiatus, caused by any number of inconsequential (and not so inconsequential things), I’m back. Hussar, I hear you all cry. There’s a wonderful saying, originating, I think, from the USA; “When life [more…]
Arts
Postcard From Borrowdale
It seems an age now since I wrote about the 40 things we were going to do to celebrate our 40th wedding anniversary. To give you some idea, in 8 weeks we’ll have been married [more…]
Arts
Gardening In A Pandemic & Adventures in Photography; The Living World
Welcome back to the greenhouse. I touched on it briefly in my last missive from the garden, but one of the problems with having an inordinate amount of time on ones hands is finding something [more…]
Diary
Signs and Pottering; Rough Gardening During A Pandemic
For what seems like weeks now I’ve been describing, in laconic detail, just how tough it is keeping a 600 (or so) square foot greenhouse in an adequate enough state of repair to do its [more…]