72 Miles From The Sea

  I was in south London And this bloke I met Said he would attack me, If I didn’t make a bet, With the neck of a guitar, So, I sai...

  Amidst the terrible tragedy Sadiq smiled, to his eternal shame But the reason for that was That he had found someone to blame

  For little Sadiq, appearing big Is the name of the game So, if its bad news, photo op boy Is on scene to apportion blame, If it’s ...

  Our London school was awash With drugs of various kinds And it certainly wasn’t considered A punishment to do lines

  We stood on a busy London street One bright warm summer day When a girl in a skimpy top And very short skirt came our way The girl was wal...

  It was September 1997; and I was up in London for a meeting with a client in Young Street and I had misjudged the journey time and found m...

It was an ordinary afternoon in 1970 when I was in the fourth year of Secondary School at Alexander Park Comprehensive School.   It had on...

  When I was growing up in the sixties we lived in North London and one of the things I really loved to do was to go swimming and we were qu...

  My father was a very keen angler and my older brother followed suit and in the fullness of time, so did I. There was however a vast diff...

  On the seventh day Of the seventh month Londoners paid the price The ultimate price in blood and death In part only they paid ...

  There was a tight rope walker On a high wire in Sydney harbour While in London was another man Being blown by an octogenarian   ...

  The London Eye Is a giant wheel All white and bright And made of steel It’s slowly turning Round and round Offering views of L...

Two thousand years to celebrate Let’s make our plans don’t hesitate We’ll build it big we’ll build it grand On Greenwich Peninsula it ...

  London’s north was once my home Before the countrywide I’d roam I dwelt in London’s north it’s true In postal code N22 It’s forty ...