Monthly Archives: April 2021
Dashed dreams in Non-League
A year without games is tearing at the ambitions of young footballers explains Fergal Hale-Brown
My footballing journey has taken me from internationals to the...
Travel in a time of Covid
To say that the pandemic seriously impacted the travel industry over the last 12 months is a huge understatement. The travel and tourism industry...
Seeking 98% Oxygen
54-year-old successful architect Gavin Hale-Brown shares his account of surviving COVID-19's cruelty
Covid 19, Coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, the plague... well as one who has been...
Staying in the UK
In October 2021, in that brief time of un-lockdown, me and the family took a holiday in Norfolk. Specifically, we stayed in a cottage...
(Lock) Down & Out (side)
How lockdown led to Suzanne West rediscovering the Great Outdoors
Pre-pandemic, like many in the UK, I dabbled in keeping fit, using a step counter...
Studying in a COVID World
March 2020 and panic buying for loo rolls as lockdown began. I made it back home, sat down and, like thousands of other university...
Football – what I’m missing
Football, for many of us, is way more than ‘just a game’: it’s a way of getting away from day to day troubles. Whether...
Exploring London starts here
Daniella Hodges says, "Londoners get out and discover your city!"
If you live in London, you’re lucky. After all, people travel from all over the...
We live by the river
“I live by the river” sang the notorious British punk band, The Clash, in their epic 1980 smash hit, London Calling.
And what a brilliant...
Living on the Isle of Man
Edwin Richardson says you should race over to visit as soon as you can
With the pandemic and lockdown, I decamped to my home –...