by Charlie | Nov 12, 2017 | Blog
A few years ago I discovered a great-uncle I’d never known about had been killed a week before the end of the First World War, aged nineteen. Somehow he’d slipped entirely from the family narrative; even my dad didn’t know he’d even existed and...
by Charlie | Jan 19, 2017 | Blog
One hundred years ago today, at 6.52pm, the Brunner Mond munitions factory in the Silvertown district of east London blew up. It was an explosion heard as far afield as Cambridge, Salisbury and Southampton and killed at least 73 people. My great-grandparents had a...
by Charlie | Nov 4, 2016 | Blog
When news broke on Tuesday evening that Bap Kennedy had died it was as if the world took a blow to the solar plexus. It wasn’t entirely unexpected given the bleakness of his cancer diagnosis earlier this year, but the wave of grief that washed through social media...
by Charlie | Apr 29, 2016 | Blog
Sixteen years ago today on the gloriously warm spring afternoon of April 29th 2000 Charlton Athletic collected the League Championship trophy in front of a capacity crowd at The Valley. Sixteen years sounds like a long time ago but I’ve reached an age now where it...
by Charlie | Mar 17, 2016 | Blog
I am aware I have been banging on about this half-marathon as if I’m the first person ever to have run one for far too long. In my defence it’s been in an attempt to distract you with bad jokes while picking your pocket for sponsorship cash. So before detailing the...
by Charlie | Mar 10, 2016 | Blog
It’s just days until the race now. I’d like to say I’m in tip-top condition and raring to go. I’d really, really like to say that. It would probably be the case, were it not for a running-induced bladder infection and a sore back, but whatsa...
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