Casual Cultures

www.casualcultures.co.uk 

The Five Year Furlough

Its taken 35 days of isolation boredom to kick start the blog again, after five years of nothingness.

Those last few years I was in a pretty grim place, struggling a bit mentally and I used the blog as a form of escapism - looking back over it, I'm shocked how the family doesn't ever get a mention.  Although things had improved by 2015, I just couldn't be arsed with keeping it going...

Fast forward five years and things are much happier and positive. Well, they were until a global pandemic. And with a bit of time on my hands I stumbled across it, tidied it up whilst making it somewhat brighter and airy - thus reflecting my current mood - but again offering yet another form of escape, away from the news bulletins and sirens. 

Good Northern. We go again.

Oneupmanship Journal

The blog that inspired my own, and probably hundreds more pretenders, the Oneupmanship Journal was the Connoisseurs link between (the now defunct) Countylads.com and Casualco.com. However it is now lost in the mists of time, as blogger and chief Dan lost his password. It's been out of ops for over a year now, but it's still the original and best out there so it rightly deserves a bit of blog loving. For me it was the perfect blend of everything I enjoy - jackets, shoes, pickups, brands I like, films, and arty farty shit - and not much football.

True Oneupmanship in action... but no more.

 

Connoisseur

I've made it in life. I'm one of life's Connoisseurs.

Strictly members only.

Massimo Osti Archive

Damn fine Russian site freizeit were granted a visit to MOA earlier this year. Well worth a look for their glorious, and numerous, photos. Click here for archive blog.

Found NYC

If you don't know, you weren't there...

ACM A Casual Man

A man who enjoys the finer things in life - clothes, ale, photography and film. He's been blogging for a year less than Good Northern but is doing it with more class and style than me unfortunately. Can't begrudge though because it's a fine site. Visit www.acasualman.blogspot.co.uk