Author Archive: Bob Massey

Family Ties

I had an interesting email today, from one Barry Ennever. Barry is researching the Ennever family tree; my mother was an Ennever, and hes traced her family line back to about 1650. Interestingly Mothers branch of the family tree never strayed far from Essex or the East End of London. I was aware that my Grandfather […]

Paperback Writer

I stumbled across another writer this week. John Harvey, hes a Brit and his books get positive cover quotes by Elmore Leonard and Michael Connolly, so hes in good company. His stuff is well written, tightly plotted and firmly set in Britain. The novel I read (Gone To Ground) was set around Cambridge and Nottingham. […]

Pick Up The Pieces

Last weekend I was enjoying a quiet pint and a chat with the landlord of one of my local pubs. I say a quiet chat because the pub was pretty much deserted, symptomatic of the credit crunch and general decline in pub-going in the UK. Some 1400 pubs closed in the UK last year, which […]

Hot Summer Nights

This weekend we were invited round to a friends house for an evening barbecue. This was the first time wed been invited to their place socially although theyd been to a couple of our bashes over the years. As such it was a nice opportunity to mee a different social circle; we knew maybe half of the […]

Updating this site

I worked from home yesterday, which means that I didnt have the long hot haul home. The TV schedules for Monday and Friday evenings comprise ninety minutes of soap operas. So while my good lady was catching up on the events in Weatherfield and Walford, I took the opportunity to add a few more been there […]

Quizzes – again

Over the last couple of weeks Ive posted a couple of musings on the venerable pub quiz and whether its days are numbered. This Sunday Chris at the Curlew arranged a charity night for Sunday night, which clashed with the regular Pop Quiz, so Pete, the Pop Quiz man moved into South Woodham town centre and […]

Linked to Wikipedia

Okay, so its a very small claim to the merest hint of fame, but I was trawling through the hit counts for my various websites… (The Lodge Inn gets about 280 visits a week) when I wondered how many people venture to this here little site. The answer is nearly 14,000 for the sites various […]

The Gunman, and other stories

I think I should go back to my erstwhile colleagues in Edinburgh and protest my innocence regarding not having anything younger that 20 years old on my iPod. My post “Old Music” from July 19th relates – here. While trawling through my iPod this morning I stumbled upon “The Gunman and Other Stories” another forgotten […]

There’s a ghost in my house

Well Im not sure if its a ghost or some tech-savvy pixies. We have a media centre PC in the kitchen, its an HP Touchsmart which is pretty cool, it does all the usual PC type things, shows and records TV programs and has a touch screen. It also either has a mind of its own, […]

Old mild men

Once upon a time in Romford, back in the early seventies, a bunch of us in the 6th form got together and took over the management of the school magazine. We were Vaughan, Pete Davis, Bob Windsor, Talat, Wilf and yours truly. After The Mag we ran the school discos, and organised an end of […]

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