Cult
Humour David Stone Humour David Stone

Cult

I’m having coffee with Mike at the Costa Drive Thru and it’s the usual mix of girlfriend troubles (for him) and the pressures of family life (for me) when something he says suddenly catches my attention: big time. 

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Wizard
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Wizard

‘So let me get this straight,’ I say, trying to get comfortable in the back of the van. ‘I agree to blog about you, and in return you will show me REAL magic.’ 

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Publand
Nostalgia, Thanet David Stone Nostalgia, Thanet David Stone

Publand

Reflecting on the big news this week that pubs are allowed to stay open longer for the football, I found myself thinking about how much has changed in terms of exactly what pubs meant to so many people during my childhood and exactly what they mean now.

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Don’t Make Eye Contact
Blog, Nostalgia, Comedy David Stone Blog, Nostalgia, Comedy David Stone

Don’t Make Eye Contact

I’d only been working as a shift runner at Blockbuster Video for a few days when the incident happened, and I remember thinking that it was a perfect reflection of my luck that had it happened just a week before then none of it – none of it - would have been my responsibility.

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Legover
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Legover

When I was growing up, our house was always full of men whom I naturally thought were my ‘Uncles’.

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Uncles
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Uncles

I was born in the early hours of the morning at QEQM Hospital in Margate, an odd baby with a shock of ginger hair and a tiny mole on the knuckle of my left index finger.

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Haunted
Newspaper Columns David Stone Newspaper Columns David Stone

Haunted

It’s hard to imagine now, when you look at the sheer size and magnificence of the Granville Hotel… but for most of my childhood, half of it was quite literally a pile of old rubble.

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Blockbuster
Newspaper Columns David Stone Newspaper Columns David Stone

Blockbuster

It’s a dark and rainy Friday night in Ramsgate sometime during September 2001 and I’m running the late shift at Blockbuster Video. I’m standing at the counter facing down a monster of a guy with a chin like an anvil who I just KNOW is going to be trouble. He is GLARING at me.

‘Say that again, mate?’

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Morris
Newspaper Columns David Stone Newspaper Columns David Stone

Morris

It’s the late 1980s and I’m sitting outside Woolworths on Ramsgate High Street watching a man dressed as a chicken taking on Morris, the lovable town drunk, in a fight over a Kazoo.

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Early
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Early

Are you sleeping comfortably? Then I’ll begin…

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