Category: A Day in the Life of a ‘Steel City’ Man…

Just a short one today, fellow bloggers. As the title suggests, I’m going to try and embed my latest Vlog into this Blog whilst using the new all singing, all dancing block system … I tried using the block system several days ago but to be as honest as only a first grade technophobe can…

  I don’t know why I wrote that title, ‘Crying Time’, by the late great Ray Charles, but it was going through my head as I thought, “Let’s do a Blog this morning.” Ray Charles is one of my musical heroes, along with Nina Simone and a whole host of others in the jazz/blues genre.…

      Well, after all this time, and just a few reblogs of ELLEN HAWLEY’s   great works, I’m back AGAIN with a renewed commitment to the SteelCityMan Blog.  I’ll just say that if you haven’t yet had the great pleasure of reading what Ellen writes, then you are in for a treat if you…

Originally posted on Notes from the U.K.: Almost everyone in the English-speaking world (she asserted on the basis of no evidence whatsoever) grew up on stories about Robin Hood, that dashing outlaw of Sherwood Forest who fought the Sheriff of Nottingham and assorted other medieval baddies, who stole from the rich to give to the…

Originally posted on Notes from the U.K.: November 5 is Guy Fawkes Night, when people across most of Britain (we’ll get into the most part eventually) light bonfires and burn a long-dead Catholic plotter in effigy. The only time I went to a Guy Fawkes Night bonfire, all we burned were some potatoes (and we…

NOT WAVING BUT DROWNING

Originally posted on martinupfold: It’s been at least 3 months or so since I last blogged. My last blog was about how I was discriminated by a potential employer. That situation has still left a bitter taste in my mouth. However despite this I have accomplished the seemingly impossible- I got a job. It’s tedious,…

as a BLOGGER I suddenly found myself looking at the rear of the VLOGGER as he overtook me and began to pull ahead.

      It feels like ages since I put pen to paper .. metaphorically speaking … and it feels even longer since my fingers danced the ‘light fantastic’ over the keyboard … well, maybe ‘dancing the light fantastic’ is a bit much, as I’m quite heavy handed actually … lol… Anyway discerning readers, what…

Originally posted on martinupfold: There are many things I am unaccustomed to. ?A few of those things is an overwhelming sense and feeling of anger, frustration and injustice. I have been discriminated against on mental health grounds. It does not matter if you are of a different race, ethnicity, sexuality, religion, creed, gender or as…