The great 5 x 15 Stories asked me to write a Christmas song for them. I'm not sure this is quite what they were expecting. Christmas in Bed by TerenceBlacker And here's its launch, with two other songs, when I...
It was a long and often rough road which led to a special meeting of the South Norfolk Planning Committee on Wednesday 8th December to decide whether three wind turbines should be erected on the land between the villages of...
Like the hula-hoop, skateboarding and computer games, sexting is one of those teenage fads which has spread unexpectedly into the adult world. There was a time when talking dirty by text – or, more challengingly, within the 140-character form of...
Once when I played this song, a woman in the audience advised me to seek psychiatric help. Derek Hewitson is on lead guitar. D'You Remember the Evening? by TerenceBlacker
It must have been something of a shock for those attending a global-warming rally this week to find themselves caught up in an international debate about a dead rock star's penis. Before turning to the state of the planet, the...
To an outsider, it would have seemed a normal enough gathering: 25 chaps of a certain background, of a certain age, at a gentlemen’s club in London. Around the long table, there was the usual mix of banterers and jokers,...
The co-author of Families and How to Survive Them has embarked upon his Alimony Tour. One of the comic themes of this travelling one-man show derives from his divorce from his third wife Alyce, and the expensive settlement which followed....
It is time for town-dwellers to be very brave. We are about to venture into the perilous unknown. There is a place, according to no less an authority than the director-general of the National Trust, which is "alien" and "full...
What stirring news it has been that the National Grid has performed spectacularly well this year, posting a mind-boggling 45 per cent increase in its pre-tax profits for the first six months of this year. The impression in some quarters...