When his local football team needed a bit of help funding urgent ground improvements, local anorak Rob Grillo decided to do his bit to help them. With a bit of help from this friends of course. His journey across Britain's best known long distance footpath proved far from plain sailing, but proved ultimately successful, more through luck than expertise. His trials, tribulations - and detours - are documented here, as are the moments and events that made his 268 mile odyssey entirely worthwhile.

Everyone knows someone who is obsessed with music; that is if they're not obsessed themselves. Whether it is impossible for you to step inside the car without turning on the stereo, or whether you just have to have every mix, remix and variation of every release by your favourite artist, you'll be able to comprehend what this book is about. This book covers the music scene in the 1980s when record companies suddenly cottoned on to the idea of creative marketing, seen through the eyes of Rob Grillo, and several other obsessive fans of '80s music. With a foreword by Martyn Ware (Heaven 17 / The...