Writer in the damp Welsh hills.
Books include All the Wide Border, Map Addict, On the Red Hill, The Wild Rover, Neighbours from Hell?
"No-one maps the secrets of the UK quite like Mike Parker" - Ayesha Hazarika, Times Radio
Mike Parker
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This is tomorrow! Should be a fun chat with Alex about his fascinating and very entertaining romp through a century of Welsh literature. So much to chew over, and all in the care of the truly brilliant @montylitfest.bsky.social. Best cakes on the circuit.
Fascinating piece by @mollycaenwyn.bsky.social about the importance of the queer home photographic studio in the 40s, 50s & 60s, with particular reference to Reg & George, whose lives I explored in On the Red Hill.
#queerhistory #pride #lgbtqhistory #cymru
everydayphotography.org/journal/the-...
As expected, a glorious weekend @montylitfest.bsky.social. Enjoyed my session with @shedworking.bsky.social, catching up with dear friends and being thumped AGAIN in the legendary festival quiz.
Here are the winning team in their moment of victory. Next year, comrades…
A brilliant portrait of Brum’s new Camp Hill line. Will never look at Moseley - sorry, Moseley VILLAGE - station in quite the same way.
Who knew Britain had 21 'Cock Lanes' and 71 'Bull Lanes'?
This, and many more fascinatingly useless facts can be unearthed at Lost in the Lanes - my new online atlas of every named lane in Britain (all 77,813 of 'em, fully searchable by name and location). Enjoy.
lanes.lostlanes.co.uk
RIP Anthony Head...No-one under 40 can appreciate just how big the Gold Blend TV adverts were in the 1980s - the will they/won't they storyline spun out for years, over endless cups of milky 'coffee'. Kind of the 80s in a nutshell - big hair, big promises, bitter aftertaste.
The world is diminished without David Hockney seeing it afresh
