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Alan Dearling visits a new cider company making an original range of ciders and more in the English-Scottish borderlands I’ve known Phil Elliott for well over a decade since his Peel Walls’ cider-making days outside the village of Ayton in Berwickshire. He’s a larger than life character. He looks the part of an artisan scrumpy farmer, or, a butcher, brewer or baker, come to think of it. I think he’s actually worked in all those professions. He’s now a year into commercial cider-making under the Monkey House Cider moniker, working from adapted, and totally legal, premises at the ...
Elli de Mon: Alan Dearling tunes into the graveyard vibes of John Peel! Imagine John Peel turning over in his coffin on hearing this new album from Italian one-girl band, Elli de Mon. This would have made Mister Peel positively salivate. It’s full of ghouls, spirits of the night and darkness. This is ostensibly a collection of tunes from the female blues-mistresses of the 1920s. But, Bessie Smith never sounded quite like this on ‘Blue Spirit Blues’: “I had a dream last night, that I was dead.” This is downright ‘nasty’ A high morbidity count! I love it to death. Indeed it’...
The vanishing art of Fore-edge painting: There was always something quirky and mischievous about Martin. He wanted to be more naughty than he really was. And that was just during our school years in and around Bognor Regis Grammar School in the 1960s. He went on to become a world-renowned artist. Indeed he is virtually an ‘endangered species’, as the last professional Fore-edge painter in the world! He’s also a committed, err, umm, Morris Dancer! Here’s a recent chat I had with Forever Young, Mart, who is based in Worthing in West Sussex. *******************************************...
A quick glimpse from Alan Dearling Just as a touch of ‘normal’ life returned to the shops, towns and villages of Upper Calderdale in the Yorkshire Pennines, a veritable Storm in the (free) Book Cabinet erupted into the local and then national media. Along the Burnley Road from the market town of Todmorden lies Cornholme, population about 1,500. Rather delightful book cabinets offering free book exchanges are organised by volunteers throughout this area, often along with community gardens offering herbs, veg and fruits – free for the picking. However, we can sense the angst and ire of at...