Rapscallion Magazine Feature: some notes on an enduring love for Dinbych-y-pysgod (Tenby)
By Harry Mottram: The rain came down and another Sunday afternoon was drifting away towards the dreaded Monday morning and work.…
Rapscallion Magazine Feature: Cider, cigarettes and Letraset… confessions of a 70s art student
By Harry Mottram: One pint of cider for 30p and you began to slur your words. Three pints and it…
Rapscallion Magazine Feature: a very British ascent of ben Nevis with cheese sandwiches, Gulab Jamun sweets, precipitous paths and er… the Poo Rock
This article is from 2022 By Harry Mottram: Wet, bedraggled and miserable: not us but one of the first couples…
Feature: fearing death, a cocktail of drugs and losing a stone and a half – how my life changed for ever in a field in the middle of the night
By Harry Mottram: On August 17th, 2024, I had a heart attack in the middle of the night in my…
Rapscallion Magazine Feature: the life and times of that stalwart of British comedy – the Spiv – the cheeky anti-authoritarian character working the black economy selling dodgy goods
Harry Mottram has a suitcase full of demob suits. Here he relates his life as a spiv I once sold…
Rapscallion Magazine Feature: Cider, cigarettes and Letraset… confessions of a 70s art student
By Harry Mottram: One pint of cider for 30p and you began to slur your words. Three pints and it was…
Rapscallion Magazine Feature: cider, cigarettes and Letraset… confessions of a 70s art student
By Harry Mottram: One pint of cider for 30p and you began to slur your words. Three pints and it was…
Rapscallion Magazine Feature: canal paths, skinny dippers and Macbeth – with added punctures and insect bites on a Somerset to London cycle ride – and our closest ape relatives giving me the cold shoulder
By Harry Mottram: Rain, rain and more rain this summer. And then Carol Kirkwood on BBC’s Breakfast programme announced there…
Rapscallion Magazine Feature: when England and Wales turned into a light shade of burnt sienna during the summer of ’76 – and I set off on my mum’s bike from Somerset to er… Scotland
Part One of Harry Mottram’s cycle ride to Scotland during the 1976 drought. In the days before Global Warming and…
Rapscallion Magazine Feature: Cider, cigarettes and Letraset… confessions of a 70s art student
By Harry Mottram: One pint of cider for 30p and you began to slur your words. Three pints and it was…