Category Archives: Biographical

Concerning things that actually happened, give or take

Look and assess

This after­noon I found myself sit­ting in Bridg­north hos­pi­tal await­ing an X-ray. It is, like just about every hos­pi­tal depart­ment I’ve been to, the domain of capa­ble women. Moth­ers of the NHS, the women who can. But these women, long on respon­si­bil­ity, long on prac­ti­cal­ity, long on care, can be short on patience. The whole depart­ment is …

May 11, 2010 – 6:54 pm | By James Hannah | Posted in Biographical | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Duncan Symonds, frontman

I wanted to tell you about my friend Dun­can. We became friends and band­mates in about 1997/8, and he was the front­man of the band that played at my wed­ding in 2006. Well, he died on the evening of 6th Jan­u­ary 2010, aged 35, in the com­pany of his close fam­ily. All my friends who …

January 7, 2010 – 12:59 pm | By James Hannah | Posted in Biographical, Songs | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Princess Digest

A digest of all the let­ters writ­ten about my win­ning of a Princess Nova car­a­van in a song-writing competition

November 3, 2009 – 6:32 pm | By James Hannah | Posted in Biographical | Tagged , | Comments (0)