In Barry’s latest memoir there are post card views of Kings Park, Perth Western Australia, plus stories about an athletic coach with unconventional training regimes, a visit form the local plod, and a lady who lost her dog. Yes, it’s all here.
Whatever it is I seem to be doing it more often than not these days. Ah well, such is life.
Over time there have been many stories of the loss of a canine, feline or feathered friend in our respective families. This one is from our regular columnist Barry Edge in Western Australia.
Barry tells us it’s election time in his home state of Western Australia and that this time around there has been an unusual demand on the public purse.
Yes, we know, you’re all screaming for Rob and Jo to get back from Yorkshire so that we can have some fresh news’n’views on the front page. But in the meantime indulge Barry’s latest memoir.
Yesterday Barry shared with us a story about his mum and a mangle. Today’s story is about his mum’s favorite brother.
With Rob and Jo traipsing in and around Yorkshire over the next few days Barry thought it an opportune time to tell us a story or two about his mum. Today’s story is about a washing mangle.
Barry finishes off the year with a low-key review of the topics and themes that were hot on the Forum in the last twelve months plus how the record for most users on-line at any one time was broken five times.
Can the games and dares of children temporarily stir and reveal the spirit of someone long dead? If they could would they see a spirit pale, dim and shadowy in form? Would they be greeted in a friendly manner as a thank you for giving the spirit a moment away from their eternal rest? Or […]
In his latest memoir Barry is telling Jonny Brain to hang in there.
Little did Runar Skrøvset realise that a chance conversation with a gentleman named Pål would make the pages of onevalefan. But that is exactly what has happened and Barry tells us that as long as his mental faculties permit he will never forget the story.
Yesterday Barry told us a story about the one that got away – a horse that is. Today’s story also includes a horse. But this time the ending is very different indeed.
This story from Barry is about his local Australian Rules football team, a fundraising event, and an unusual door prize in a raffle. One thing’s for sure, this memoir is in stark contrast to the one posted yesterday which talked about terrorism and violence.
It was Stone Valiant’s ovf Forum post (8.22pm 11th September) where he stated… “My second moment of disgust was seeing a bunch of youths amongst the police having a laugh about it.”…that prompted Barry to put fingers to keyboard.
Exiled Valiant Barry Edge lives in Perth, Western Australia. In his latest missive from ‘Downunder you’ll find a string of delicious twists of irony – all in the name of sharing a little humour of course.
It seems our favourite Aussie is a tad disappointed with the way certain media have chosen to pillory Paula Radcliffe’s Athens’ agony saying they do not understand the personal journey taken by Marathon runners toward achieving their goals.
Exiled Valiant Barry Edge lives in Perth Western Australia and is a regular columnist for onevalefan. His latest article beggers belief. But he assures us it is true.
Forty plus kids, a magician, badly dressed ‘Disney characters, lots of food and drinks, and Barry was Santa Claus.
In this memoir Barry tells us about a work college who would drone on about Liverpool FC until, that is, the day he revealed he was a true blue Valiant…
Barry wants to know how many of us have ever sensed that spooky feeling of coincidence. You know the stuff: occupying the same place or position; the same space or time; the same name or history; and so on.
Rugby Union Football, party-goers, bikies with baseball bats and a vicious attack in retaliation. This is a different story from the keyboard of Aussie Rules.
The 1962 Empire Games in Perth, Western Australia; an Englishman winning the marathon; hillbillies ‘Downunder; and a meal that left Barry retching.
Barry’s days as a youth leader in Western Australia have yielded some interesting stories for onevalefan. But his one takes some beating.
Barry says he was on his lunch hour when he decided to go to the bank to organise an international money order for the Valiants match sponsorship against Blackpool.
Mother’s Day in Oz, Port Vale and the play-offs and the irony of it all…
Barry says that this day in history remains indelible on his psyche for several reasons. He says it was a time in his youth when human endurance seemed to ignore the logic of gravity and sensibility and where, as we were later informed by Captain Kirk in StarTrek, they were prepared to go where no […]
She wasn’t really a Port Vale fan and their boy/girl friendship was, to say the least, short lived – surviving only until he met a girl from Bentilee. That’s right folks, it’s another memoir from Barry.