A blog by Ross of Penge (formerly of Balham)

I blogged pretty extensively during 2014 and early 2015, but got out of the habit. In the time since there has been a huge amount I've sort of wanted to write about (politics, terror etc) but I haven't. I tried several times, but anger and frustration about what was happening prevented me from getting things down in a coherent form. Given I couldn't express what I felt, and it didn't seem like it would make a difference anyway, I let it lie fallow.

It's now early 2017, and I'm back, blogging about my attempt to do the first month of the year without social media. After that, who knows?

And why gateway2thesouth? Named after a famous sketch popularised by Peter Sellers:

"Broad-bosomed, bold, becalmed, benign,
Lies Balham, four-square on the Northern Line."

I lived in Balham for 23 years - longer than I have been anywhere else, and it still feels like one of the places in the world I most belong.

Friday 10 January 2014

Welcome to Milton Keynes

.... Is what someone might say if I ever get there tonight. I am stuck on a train somewhere at the back of the monument to 21st century Mammon that is Westfield. The place where the trains go from third rail to overhead. And my train to MK is now only going as far as Watford Junction.

Piss ups and breweries come to mind. 

Anyway, all I am trying to do here is see if I can post a blog using the Blogger app. If so, some more relevant content may follow later or tomorrow.
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