One lump or two
Looking back at my ramblings I do seem to have written a fair few regarding drinks, whether they be alcoholic or just restorative and...
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Steve Matthews
- Jun 16
- 4 min
Better than a curate’s egg
Don’t know about you, but my go to in the pub snack department is the good old pork scratchin’, nothing better with a pint. I’ve had a...
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Steve Matthews
- Jun 2
- 4 min
Takin’ a tumble
For the last couple of months I’ve been flat out researching, writing and publishing several new audio tours. Combine that with everyday...
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Steve Matthews
- May 26
- 3 min
Who had the Lamb Bhuna?
Fancy a curry? Today you’ll be spoilt for choice, takeaways and restaurants have proliferate on our high streets for many years, but how...
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Steve Matthews
- May 8
- 2 min
Sticking a bottle up a lion’s arse!
Possibly one of the weirdest titles for a blog post I’ve made up in a long time, but believe it or not there’s a lot of truth in it....
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Steve Matthews
- May 5
- 5 min
Time Encapsulation
Perhaps it was the burial of the Blue Peter time capsule in 1971 that first fascinated me about this rather quirky way of linking the...
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Steve Matthews
- Apr 7
- 4 min
The Caravan Club
If you’ve just sat back in your sun lounger in your open toed sandals, long grey socks, tailored shorts and white vest to read your copy...
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Steve Matthews
- Mar 31
- 3 min
Winchester Geese
It’s 1392 and you are a young Galaunt. These were young men, usually of between sixteen and twenty five years old. They were portrayed as...
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Steve Matthews
- Mar 24
- 2 min
A penny in the cap
In my last post I took a look at a group of people that populated London’s streets in the mid 1800s called Patterers. This was the heyday...
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Steve Matthews
- Mar 17
- 3 min
The Patterers; a breed apart
I’d heard about Patterers, I knew a bit about them, that is in terms of the job that they did, like a lot of their peers it seemed to be...
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Steve Matthews
- Mar 13
- 3 min
A rose between the beer vats
“Khalil took the sound as a request, and soon his mouth was on hers, hot and vibrant, firm and needing. Strong, despite that terrible...
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Steve Matthews
- Mar 6
- 2 min
What a pile of s**t !
To help clear London’s air and improve public health, the Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) is expanding across all London boroughs from 29...
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Steve Matthews
- Feb 27
- 3 min
That’s one in the eye
This short story fits loosely in with the idiom theme that I’ve been perusing recently. The term is used to mean a disappointment or...
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Steve Matthews
- Feb 20
- 3 min
Feeling Like A Proper Charlie
I like to collect and research idioms, although I’m not too sure how to describe them. I suppose a phrase that is used where a meaning is...
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Steve Matthews
- Feb 13
- 4 min
Caught with your trousers down!
For the last month I’ve immersed myself in all thing Soho, as I’m currently publishing an audio tour about the area ( when it’s published...
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Steve Matthews
- Feb 10
- 2 min
Jessie Matthews and the Brontosaurus
Probably best I explain from the beginning, Jessie Matthews was an actress, dancer and singer of the 1920s and 1930s, whose career...
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Steve Matthews
- Feb 4
- 2 min
A man of many parts
It’s 1665 and you’ve caught the coach from York to London and are recuperating at the White Hart Inn on Bishopsgate prior to a business...
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Steve Matthews
- Jan 20
- 3 min
Stop and have a cuppa
Sometimes you walk past a building and give it no attention whatsoever, it doesn’t matter how grand or humble it is, it just doesn’t ask...
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Steve Matthews
- Jan 13
- 2 min
The three ships of Great Marlborough Street
Great Marlborough Street runs roughly parallel to Oxford Street emerging into Regent Street. One of it’s most famous confluences is...
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Steve Matthews
- Jan 9
- 3 min
Terrorism 17th century style
In the last post, Hide and Seek in Moorgate, I relayed the story of the run up to the English Civil War and how five members of...
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