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These blogs all have a connection to England. The blogs may be about my travels in England, about places I have been or want to visit. Each link will direct you to a blog within a specific section of my website, where you can read the blog or related content.
My good friend Derek Almond took me to the Emirates Stadium to do a celebrity-guided tour in 2014. Our tour guide was Charlie George, an Arsenal legend.
I have always been an Arsenal fan, and when I was a kid I did go to Highbury with my dad to see a lot of matches. I met David O´Leary, however, at Heathrow airport.
My friend Derek had very kindly got his wife a tour of the Emirates Stadium for her to go and see the hallowed turf. He had even managed to get the legendary Charlie George to be the tour guide.
Noel Blake, a Jamaican-born football player, played for Aston Villa, Shrewsbury Town, Birmingham City, Portsmouth, Leeds United, Stoke City, Bradford City, Exeter City and Dundee at one time or another.
I must have been about 16 or 17 years old when I met Barbara Windsor very briefly outside a bank in Portsmouth, England.
✅ I had wanted a hot air balloon flight for a long time and received a flight from my mum as a Christmas present in 2003. It was my first time flying in a hot air balloon, but not the last, and I have now crossed it off my bucket list.
I met Chris Eubank in Brighton when I was there for a friend's stag party.
The first time I met Dave Courtney was in a pub in Barkingside called The Chequers. At that time I had never heard of him but I have since read his books and been told who he is.
Today I will leave Heathrow and begin my flight to Australia via Singapore.
I have booked to go on an escorted tour of Australia and New Zealand in 2026. I booked to go with the JustYou tour company again. There were many places that I wanted to see in both countries, many of which are on my bucket list. This holiday would help me cross many things off my bucket list
...When Henry Burrows was born in May 1864 in Weare, Somerset, England, his father, Charles, was 31 years old, and his mother, Sarah, was also 31 years old.
I met Lenny Henry at a concert in a park in London, but I don't recall much about it. I had been celebrating a cousin's birthday in London's West End the night before, followed by a day at Clapham Common, and a party celebrating Jamaica's independence.
In 1997, Les Wallace became the first left-handed dart player to win the World Dart Championship. I have met Les a couple of times since then.
When Mary Jane Tincknell was born in 1864 in Wedmore, Somerset, England, her father, Thomas, was 24 years old, and her mother, Harriett, was 24 years old.
I used to go to the 'Who Do You Think You Are Show' every year when it was held at Earls Court in London. I used to travel to London and stay with my Uncle Dave for the weekend whilst going to the show. He has now moved to Birmingham, and strangely, the '...
I recently had an old friend stay for a few days because we were going to see Simple Minds in Murcia. While he was here, we discussed old memories and some of the mischief we used to get up to as schoolboys and teenagers after leaving school. This short story is one of them.
I got up this morning to discover I can't remember where the Christmas cards I had for my family had been secreted away. I bought them earlier in the year and put them away where prying eyes and little hands couldn't find them. The trouble is my normally perfect memory can't remember where I
...My dad, Brian Llewelyn Morris, died in Queen Alexandra Hospital in Cosham, Hampshire, England, in February 2005. He had been admitted to the hospital on my birthday in January of the same year.
I have no memory of these stories beyond what my parents have told me, but I did play a significant role in them. They involved me as a baby and my grandmother, Doris Morris, who had passed away sixteen days before I was born.
In 1996, I left the UK and lived in Orlando, Florida. I had left the employment of British Gas, taking a redundancy package that would help me live in America. This story is about what happened on my flight to Florida.
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