Lager Time

Greetings, bonjour, what’s happening? Welcome back, again. Big thanks to those of you that listened last week, warmed my heart, mate. I’m glad to be back doing it again, even if it is just before the end of the year and the Christmas break. Similar to last week’s episide, there’s a few peoms and a bit of music. Setting things up for next year. A book (s) and some music. Let’s do it Hope you all ha...

Greetings, bonjour, what’s happening? The Lager Time Podcast is back. First episode in over a year, took some time out. A bit like fasting from food for a while and now I’m hungary. So, I’m aiming to keep the episodes a lot simpler fo4 the foreseeable, rough and ready, like it was when I started it. Bit of chat and a bit of sharing and a bit of music. I’ll save the bells and whistles for other pro...

Greetings, bonjour, what’s happening? I thought I’d write a thing, being that on Thursday (24th) I’m doing an event which is celebrating 10 years of Beats & Elements at Camden People’s Theatre, in London. B&E is the theatre company I co-set up back, with my good pal Conrad Murray . Enjoy LINKS MENTIONED IN THE PEICE NO MILK FOR THE FOXES FULL SHOW - filmed at Camden People’s Theatre 2015 NO MILK F...

Greetings, bonjour, what’s happeing? This is the September instalment of Lager Time, which features a short story called Pegasus. It’s voiced in the character of Reece who, if you’ve listened for a while, may remember from a series of stories I showed last year, called Young UnProfessional. This story sees him back school, and his failed attempts at trying to be a hard kid. Hope you enjoy, below a...

Greetings, bonjour, what’s happening? Welcome to Lager Time. Still not quite back in the rotuine yet of putting bits out, or to put it another way, I’m inbetween projects at the moment but I’m really enjoying it. I’ve been tinkering with little poems, stories and anecdotes which I’ve been sticking up on the Substack Notes section. So for this month, I’ve taken two of those bits, plus one older poe...

Greetings, bonjour, what’s happening? Hope you’re all well out there in Lager Land. This latest ediiton of Lager Time is a Not Quite Live Editon, number 4. First one I’ve done this year. Been a busy boy aint I?! In this episode I run through a new set of poems and stories plus a couple of tracks from a forthcoming EP More Bars of Boredom. It was a bit all over the gaff as I had to stop the recordi...

Greetings, bonjour, what’s happening? As previously mentioned, I’ve been away, hence the podcast silence. This month is just a little update on the Euro’s and what I’ve been up too, plus a few new poems I’ve got in the works (been a while since I banged any of those out!) Hope you’re all good out there in Lager Land, enjoy the sun, enjoy the football, keep it larger than life If you’re feeling nic...

Greetings, bonjour, what’s happening? Welcome to Lager Time. This is the final edition in this series I’ve been writing, based on quotes from Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations book. For each chapter, I selected one quote, then wrote something inspired by the quote. This piece is from Book 12, entitled On Renewal. If you like it, there’s 11 more in the archives. I’m taking a little break for a while, b...

Greetings, bonjoour, what’s happening. This is the penultimate episode / blog in this series where I’ve been getting stuck into the Meditations book, and writing bits based off quotes from each of the 12 books. 'Just as those who try to block your progress along the straight path of reason will not be able to divert you from principled action, so you must not let them knock you out of your good wi...

What is my directing mind to me? What am I turning it into now, what use am I making of it? Is it drained of intelligence? Is it divorced and broken off from society? Is it so interfused and welded to the flesh that it sways with its tides? BOOK 10 – 24 If you’re able to, these are ways you can support my work BUY-ME-A-LAGER https://ko-fi.com/paulcree THE SUBURBAN BOOK My 1st book collection of st...

Look then at what is happening now. Only the intelligent creatures have forgotten the urge to be unified with each other: only here will you have no confluence BOOK 9 - 9.3 Based on what I witnessed and experienced, growing up around Horley and Crawley, there was a lot of low-level isms - racism, sexism, classism, homophobia - ism and probably more isms - maybe even Marxism, but I didn’t know what...

Greetings, bonjour, what's happening This week, I look at a quote form Book 8 of Marcus Aurelius's Mediitations, talking about computer games and not ever completing them On Eating That Marshmallow In the constitution of the rational being I can see no virtue that counters justice: but I do see the counter to pleasure – self-control. BOOK 8 – 39 If you’re able to, these are ways you can support my...

Greetings, bonjour, what's happening? Welcome to Lager Time. This week's episode is called On Good Help vs Bad help, and is inspired by a quote from book 7 of Meditations by Marcus Aurelius  Enjoy BUY-ME-A-LAGER - https://ko-fi.com/paulcree The Suburban Book: - https://paulcree.co.uk/shop/thesuburban Romeo & Julliet @ Polka Theatre https://polkatheatre.com/event/romeo-and-juliet/ This is a public...

Greetings, bonjour, whatt’s happening? This week's episode I get stuck into a quote from book 6 of Medittaions of Marcus Aurelius, it's called On the Good Catholics Enjoy Romeo & Julliet@ Polka Theatre https://polkatheatre.com/event/romeo-and-juliet/ BUY-ME-A-LAGER https://ko-fi.com/paulcree THE SUBURBAN BOOK My 1st book collection of stories and poems www.paulcree.co.uk/shop Beats & Elements: A H...

Greetings, bonjour, what’s happening Welcome to Lager Time, legions of lager-lites, grab your tins, your bottles and your pints. My name is Paul Cree and this is my little podcast and blog where I share bits of my writing: stories, poems, thoughts, sometimes music etc. So what’s been happening? A fair bit. Last week I was in rehearsals for a theatre show, Romeo & Julliet at the Polka Theatre in Wi...

Greetings, bonjour, what’s happening? Welcome to Lager Time, legions of lager-lites, grab your tins, your bottles and your pints. My name is Paul Cree and this is my little podcast and blog where I share bits of my writing, stories, poems, thoughts, sometimes music; I don’t get out that much these days, outside of my work, so this is my little outlet for the creative things I like to do. And so on...

Greetings, bonjour, what’s happening? Welcome to Lager Time, legions of lager-lites, grab your tins, your bottles and your pints. So this weeks episode is called On Bull-Shit Detection and is written in response to a quote from Book 3 of Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations’ in case you’ve not got the memo about what I’m doing over here. Hope you enjoy it LINKS Romeo & Julliet @ the Polka - https://polkat...

Greetings, bonjour, what’s happening? Welcome to Lager Time, legions of lager-lites, grab your tins, your bottles and your pints. . So onto this week’s episode; where I’ve written a little thing based on a quote from Book 2 of Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations  - it’s called On Moaning, Self-Loathing and Pointing the Finger. Hope you enjoy In the meantime, if you’d like to support my work the best thin...

Meditations Book 1 – On the Sport of Football Support Greetings, bonjour, what’s happening? Welcome to Lager Time, this here, the first episode of 2024. I hope your festive period shenanigans were all good? Lager consumed and laughs had. Today's main course, Marcus Aurelius and his tasty little book of mediations. I tried to explain what I’m doing with this in the previous episode before Christmas...

 ON READING BOOKS An introduction to the next season on Lager time Greetings, bonjour, what’s happening. Lager Lites of Lager Land Unite. The day I’m writing this is December 12th, 2023. It’s raining outside and there’s a load of soggy cardboard waiting to be recycled; sounds a little bit like the current Man United squad. I’m pretty sure in the run-up too, and the then run-down of Christmas, this...

Easy! If you enjoy this and would like to support my work, you can subscribe to this and or make a dontion on Ki Fi - BUY-ME-A-LAGER https://ko-fi.com/paulcr ee Greetings, bonjour, what’s happening Welcome to Lager Time, fellow patrons of the Lager Nation, as we unwind, we let the lager flow and free our collective minds, or some such bollox. Yes indeed. Apologies for the short absence, these last...

Greetings, bonjour, what’s happening This week’s Young Unprofessional will be the penultimate one for a bit, so I can sit down, have a look back through it and see where I want to go next with it. There’s some more older stuff which I’ve found in the last week, which I’d like to put on here at somepoint. Anyway, this week Reece gets sent on a Time Management course at work, and is then inspired to...

Greetings, bonjour, what’s happening Welcome to Lager Time, my name is Paul Cree, this is my lager verse, where I share bits of writing, music and the occasional on thoughts on things. Young Unprofessional story, episode 4. Reece has taken the advice off his mate, Stuart and istrying his luck meeting some females on mid-2000’s all-in-one sight Gumtree. I’ve called it Melt-Tree Enjoy Don’t forget,...

Greetings, bonjour, what’s happening? Welcome to Lager Time, the Lager March continues, indeed. So this week is episode three of Young Unprofessional, where Reece goes for a few beers with his old schoolmate, Stuart Simmons Enjoy LINKS David and Lizzie Turner https://www.youdontknow.uk/ THE SUBURBAN BOOK www.paulcree.co.uk/shop STREAM TOAST IN THE MACHINE EP https://paulcree.hearnow.com/toast-in-t...

Greetings, bonjour, what’s happening? Welcome to Lager Time. LagerLites of lagerland, lift your lagers in the sky, and rejoice, it’s lager time This is a Lager Time first this week , as I’m debuting a story called Spin, written by my good friend and sometime collaborator, Christana Lei. SPIN Written by Christana Lei Voiced by Paul Cree Intro by Christana Lei This story is a chapter that never made...