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Reply | Tigers at Layer Road
at 21:55 6 Sep 2025
Extract from text message - same caller - 20.22.
'Love the dream stuff'
'Ta'
'Far out'
'Dreams are'
'l'm sharing it with folk'
'Thanks, thought you might'
'Catch up Tuesday'
'#x'
'PS - BC was kinda sweet' |
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Reply | Tigers at Layer Road
at 21:27 6 Sep 2025
Extract from mobile phone conversation 20.05 tonight.
'Hey'
'Yo'
It's Louise'
'Where are you'
'Hylands Park'
'You working?'
'Yep'
''What's it like?'
'xxxxxxx awful,
'Typical BBC slush'
'Yeah, only even worse than usual'
'How is your violin?'
'Wasted on this xxxx'
'What's the food like?'
'Better than the xxxx music'
'Have you spoken to RK?'
'No, thank xxxx' [Post edited 6 Sep 21:28]
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Reply | Castle Park - the place to be…
at 16:23 6 Sep 2025
Colchester clinch Hambro Foundation Essex Premier League title!
Very well deserved.
Wanstead 80 All Out
Colchester 81 for 0. [Post edited 6 Sep 16:25]
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Reply | Tigers at Layer Road
at 08:03 6 Sep 2025
Last night's dream...
It is 1966. I am at Layer Road and Colchester United are playing a home league match but l can't work out who the opposition are.
I'm standing at the front of what later became known as Terrace Three and Brian Hall is racing down the right wing ( not the left wing! ).
He fires in a cross which is met at the near post with a diving header by Ken Hodgson and the ball is in the back of the net!
I am jumping up and down and applauding.
The goal is disallowed.
Not sure why, - couldn't see anything wrong with it.
Suddenly l am transported to a clothes shop at Headgate which was known as Sacks and Brendlor ( it's an estate agents these days and has been many other things over the years ).
I purchase a black leather coat for £7 and as l leave the shop l decide to jump on a light blue Cortina car bonnet ( not sure why, it's nothing l would usually consider ).
Next thing l have arrived at Butlin's Holiday Camp in Clacton and there are a line of giant candy flosses where the trees should be. [Post edited 6 Sep 13:30]
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Reply | Tigers at Layer Road
at 21:25 5 Sep 2025
It would be interesting to see what a hand writing expert would make of the note that The Prime Minister hastily scrawled in response to the resignation from his Cabinet member and deputy Angela Raynor.
It would also be interesting to see what a body language and facial expression expert makes of the mental state of our Prime Minister following recent events ( including the fires ). |
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Reply | Tigers at Layer Road
at 16:43 5 Sep 2025
I try to steer clear of anything political on here or elsewhere but it appears to me that an emergency General Election should be called after events in Downing Street over the past 48 hours!
The people running this country are xxxxxxx useless!
The Angela Rayner fiasco is a national and international embarrassment and disgrace!
There is a new party waiting in the wings -.The Inflatable Polar Bears! |
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Reply | Tigers at Layer Road
at 11:40 5 Sep 2025
Last night's dream...
After watching 'The Life and Death of Peter Sellers' on BBC 2 late last night l was expecting a visually stimulating dream - not so.
Two of us are painting the side of a red brick house in Ipswich Road, Colchester in horizontal sweeps of a large brush in a beige or magnolia colour scheme.
We are working from the bottom up which is the wrong way and have got to about eye level when we take a break.
A fair amount of traffic is coming past and dust is being blown up against the wet paint.
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It was of interest to me that last night's film actually depicted an out of life experience when Peter Sellers had succumbed to a series of heart attacks which was in keeping with a little research l am currently doing. |
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Reply | Tigers at Layer Road
at 14:14 4 Sep 2025
Last night's dream.
I'm riding my black horse through the Dutch Quarter in Colchester.
Judging by the attire being worn and the condition and colouring of the buildings l estimate the year to be between 1750 and 1800..
In the area close to where Princess Margaret once turned up at The Youth House around 1971 there is a woman hanging on to a wooden stake.
She appears to be drunk on ale. She waves up at me and beckons a ride on my horse to take her home.
She has a brown cloth bag in her hand and it makes a jangling sound.
Next thing it is 2025 ish and we are running towards Fenwicks in Colchester High Street and being chased by a herd of wild cattle.
We go into Fenwicks and make our way to the coffee shop via the escalator that is lit up in neon lights.
The coffee shop appears to be inhabited by cardboard cutouts of people other than the waitress who is real but comes in the form of a slithering sea serpent as she approaches us to take our order.
We order ice cream topped with marmalade.
It was her idea. [Post edited 4 Sep 14:19]
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Reply | Tigers at Layer Road
at 17:00 3 Sep 2025
Last night's dream.
( Just to explain, l sent a copy of Issue One of 'Monster' to Peter Doherty in France a while ago ).
I see Peter unloading a car. He has a guitar and a few amps and speakers. I ask him what he is doing in Colchester and he says he has a gig at The Affair Club. ( It closed years ago ).
I ask him what time he is on and he says around nine so l say I'll be there.
I get there around nine and it is in the original club / disco area down the stairs.
There are around 30 or 40 people.milling around and l get speaking to his wife Katia.
She says he won't be on for over an hour and we end up going back to my former marital home for some reason.
We knock on the door and there is my wife.
I introduce Katia to her and she doesn't seem in the least bit interested.
We sit down and l noticed a male around 20 years of age asleep in what looked like a crib and he has a bobble hat on. A multi coloured thing.
My wife is watching television.
The kids aren't anywhere to be seen. Perhaps they were in bed asleep.
We drive back to The Affair. It's around 10.30.
Peter still hasn't started and is fumbling around with wires and plugging things in. Then he is pulling the plugs out.
The audience has grown to around 50 and they are sitting back against the wall waiting for the gig to start.
It didn't start.
Shame that - was looking forward to it. [Post edited 3 Sep 17:03]
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Reply | Tigers at Layer Road
at 16:29 3 Sep 2025
Having skimmed the surface of out of body experiences -.of which my dying mother relayed in Colchester General Hospital it appears to me that this is hyper gamma brain activity.
It seems that the brain may be capable of sending out signals minutes, hours and even days after death.
It's the kind of images that are common place in a fifth of people who experience this that are of interest.
In my mother's case it went something like this.
'I went up WHOOSH in a plane. It was full. ( She had never flown ).The sky was brighter than usual. There were gates and someone came out and said GO BACK, IT IS NOT YOUR TIME. There were crowds of people up there. Men, women and children. |
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Reply | Tigers at Layer Road
at 11:12 2 Sep 2025
Should there be any art enthusiasts who happen to be in the Clerkenwell area - and in particular, Exmouth Market, take a peep inside the work currently being exhibited at The Elizabeth Xi Bauer Gallery - much of which was created in Colchester. |
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Reply | Tigers at Layer Road
at 12:56 1 Sep 2025
I've been reading about 'Out of Body' experiences.
It's just research really for something l may or may not write about at some stage.
I have never had an out of body experience but there have been a couple of things that featured throughout the journey that interest me.
Firstly, sometimes when l am dreaming l am aware that it is a dream and it gives me the freedom to be fearless and extend the dream and be prepared to take the dream far further than anything l would consider in real life.
There is something else that l only recalled yesterday.
When l was about six or seven years old l used to be laying in bed trying to go to sleep and l had the fear of something behind me.
It was an unidentified and unworldly threat.
It used to come on quite suddenly but l somehow discovered a way of instantly repelling the threat.
I did so by placing my right hand behind me and placing it in the middle of my back.
As soon as l did this l experienced a soothing and safety from whatever the threat was.
Sometimes l may have had to repeat this a few times but it was a remedy to removing the threat.
I never mentioned this to my parents or anyone else up until now.
I have however had numerous experiences of poltergeist activity.
These occured for around 10 years shortly after my children came into being.
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Reply | Tigers at Layer Road
at 13:11 31 Aug 2025
It's the Sparkfilms TV AGM tomorrow - Monday September 1st.
We have to split the meeting into Sitting One and Sitting Two.
Sitting One commences at 11.30am and those in attendance will be Myself, Hunter the Dog, Cyril the Squirrel , Percy Pigeon and hopefully one or two of the Magpies.
At 11.30pm it will be the turn of the Nightshift.
Joining Myself will be the group of Bats who fly alongside HQ after dark, Garden Hedgehog, Giant Spider who moved in to the property three weeks ago and we are hoping that Fiona Fox may put in an appearance.
The main item of discussion will be the repairs required on the side gate.
Refreshments will be available at both sittings.
The Bird Bath will also be refilled as required.
Attendees are kindly asked to refrain from skateboarding while the meetings are in progress. |
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Reply | Tigers at Layer Road
at 20:11 30 Aug 2025
Here is a line that l wish l had written -
'I was catching the sparks that flew from your heels'
It was written by Johnny Borrell of Razorlight and can be found on the song 'Somewhere Else'.
It was released in 2005 as a single and appeared ( recorded live ) on the re-release of the album 'Up all Night' as a bonus track.
It formed a personal anthem to the backdrop throughout '05 which would eventually lead to me writing around 50 pieces of my own - some kind of poetic wordscape thing.
It became part of 'Ipswich Zero 6'.
I was flicking through one of my books today for the first time in at least 10 years and toying with the idea of doing an AI soundtrack to the material.
Sometimes when l am speaking to writers and lyricists we might briefly discuss what critics have said about our work.
My tip to anyone who writes is that ultimately the only judge of the work that you produce who is worth listening to is yourself. |
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Reply | Tigers at Layer Road
at 13:24 29 Aug 2025
Farm on the outskirts of Cambridge, September 2019.
There are warehouses and outbuildings.
We discover a Popemobile being stored that was purchased in auction and shipped to the UK.
I remember thinking how it would be fun to get a pointed hat and a few robes and props and ride down Colchester High Street in the thing waving at folk.
Would have ran this past the owner but he was out of the country at the time. [Post edited 29 Aug 13:26]
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Reply | Tigers at Layer Road
at 21:12 28 Aug 2025
My dog consumed that.
As it happens I'm just about to return to the store as l operate a free taxi service en route to Lexden in a roundabout way.
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Reply | Tigers at Layer Road
at 16:18 28 Aug 2025
A fortnight ago l was off on the post lunch walk to an area l call 'The Swamp'.
As l set off along Lincoln Way l noticed a large quantity of books spread out in a front garden.
A piece of paper said 'Free'.
I scanned them all.
My dog sniffed a few at the front.
I spotted 'Junky' by William Burroughs and flicked through the stained pages...knew l had to take it and read it in the garage library.
I don't think too many folk in the UK would have discovered 'Junky' before 1977 when it was released as a Penguin paperback -.over 20 years after being released in the US.
Burroughs hints at so much but has either fallen short of the mark with some content or had it confiscated by the original publishers.
It's still a decent read though.
Which leads me on to something else.
I will order a copy of 'Ask the Dust' by John Fante in the next day or so.
Without Fante there may never have been Charles Bukowski. |
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Reply | Tigers at Layer Road
at 10:59 28 Aug 2025
Went to Tesco Hythe this morning.
Was looking for an egg and tomato sandwich.
I think they have stopped doing them.
Bought some dog food instead.
I have planned a 'Bring back the Egg and Tomato Sandwich' demonstration to begin at midnight tonight outside Colchester Town Hall.
I am making placards and having a tee shirt printed.
I realise there will likely be some kind of police presence as l understand there is a counter demonstration from an individual in Greenstead Road who has recently draped a large banner from a bridge on the A12.
It said "xxxx the Egg and Tomato Sandwich'. |
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Reply | Tigers at Layer Road
at 21:54 27 Aug 2025
Should anyone be interested in actually seeing what Sparkfilms TV produces there are a series of images from the 'Street Value' project which is Lot Number 2239 in a Specialist Collectors Sale currently online at Reeman Dansie Auctions.
It includes images from issues One and Two of 'Monster'.
It is also viewable via 'The Saleroom' or should be by tomorrow. |
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Reply | Tigers at Layer Road
at 15:58 27 Aug 2025
1978.
Walking back towards North Station Road
after a gig at Essex Uni.
We enter Riverside Estate and there is music coming out of a semi where there appears to be a house party.
The front door is open.
We step inside. A student party by the looks of things and although we didn't know anyone it wouldn't make any odds as the 40 of so attendees were way out of it.
The Street Legal album by Bob Dylan.had just been released and was on the turntable with some decent speakers to do it justice.
Changing of the Guards was the track we walked into and l just had a quick scan through the lyrics which might be the best Dylan ever wrote.
I always got the impression that Mr Zimmerman would have read and reread Howl by Ginsberg in the years before releasing this epic work.
I think we hung around to about 5am. Had a few drinks. A bit of skunk weed. A few magic mushrooms.
The we was myself and Sarah Stratton who l had only met at 10.30 in the student bar at Essex.
She was married a year or so later but not to me. |
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