Reporters – Robin’s Nest

Jack of all trades – and at times master of many

When it comes to daily regional newspapers and the nationals everyone seems to be a specialist. Court reporters; entertainment reporters; finance journalists; political journalists; science journalists; sports reporters – and even then there can be subdivisions with reporters only dealing with football, or golf, or cricket, hockey, rugby etc. etc. Life is not so neatlyContinue reading “Jack of all trades – and at times master of many”

Up in court on my first day in this Brave New Town

At 8.30am on Monday, 9th October, 1972, I entered a Brave New World – Basildon. Although that comparison to Aldous Huxley’s sci-fi classic would cast me in the role of the Savage whereas I felt I was the explorer in a concrete jungle. The drive from Burnham-on-Crouch, where I was living in a rented caravanContinue reading “Up in court on my first day in this Brave New Town”

In the beginning

In 1967, while I was still too young to have driving lessons, I bought a secondhand Lambretta scooter to get to college and back and be able to get around at the weekends. I will set things straight, here and now, I was NOT a mod and I was NOT a rocker. I bought theContinue reading “In the beginning”