2024-04-01 22:25
March was a very unhappy month because we had to say goodbye to one of our dogs at the start of the month and adjust to being a one-dog household after being a two-dog household for over ten… Read More
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2024-03-07 01:10
It has been very difficult for us here recently. Our younger dog has not been well for a long time and today he made his last visit to the vets. We had him since he was a pup, and watched hi… Read More
2024-03-02 23:07
Another damp, dull and dreary month. Basically it was just a slightly shorter version of January. Its enough to drive you to drink, and in my case it actually did because I opened up a bottl… Read More
2024-02-01 22:19
I know its not just me that feels like January lasted for ever. Everybody was joking about it on Twitter so much that it became a cliche, but it really did seem to drag on. Obviously it has… Read More
2024-01-27 01:12
When I treated myself to a turntable for my 60th birthday I had intended to have a small collection of records. Or small-ish. My brother-in-law, Rob, had mentioned to me that he had been fin… Read More
2024-01-21 01:09
There are a few words that keep cropping up in online conversations and commentary on social media, and newspaper comment pieces, that are not new words, but which seem to appear a lot more… Read More
2024-01-06 22:12
As a born and bred Essex boy from Basildon, its amazing that I have got this far into my lifetime playlist without putting a Depeche Mode track on it. South-East Essex has been represented b… Read More
2024-01-04 18:43
December is a funny old month. It can just slip by as you focus on getting this crappy year over and hope than the next one will be better somehow. Towards the end of the month a lot of peop… Read More
2023-12-29 01:39
At the beginning of 2023 I set myself a target to read 100 books in the year and, somehow, I have over-achieved by 20%, having read 120 as of today. Its a good place to stop because it makes… Read More
2023-12-25 00:19
This evening I finally got round to watching the Brassic xmas special that my Tivo had recorded earlier in the week. What a masterpiece. Mind you, I personally think that Brassic is consiste… Read More
2023-12-23 23:33
I walked into town today to try and do some xmas shopping. Failed miserably of course. As soon as I go into a shop I am paralysed by uncertainty, like the proverbial rabbit in the headlights… Read More
2023-12-12 00:14
I’m going to resist complaining about Christmas. I don’t like it, and don’t like anything about it, with the exception of mince pies and that Mariah Carey song. As a misant… Read More
2023-12-11 23:25
Where did November go? It seems like a few days ago it was October and still a couple of months left in the year and all of a sudden its December and life is dominated by mince pies and sell… Read More
2023-11-09 22:34
What a depressing month. I’m sure it did not rain all day, every day, but it really felt like that. It was certainly wet and miserable whenever it was a weekend so I didn’t get t… Read More
2023-10-15 10:40
This year I set myself a target, well more of a vague ambition really, to read 100 books in the year, and half-way through October I finished my 100th book of 2023 – Windswept & In… Read More
2023-10-14 20:56
I don’t get round to watching a lot of TV these days, but this month I did watch the new short series on Amazon Prime set in the John Wick universe; The Continental. I have to say it i… Read More
2023-10-01 20:16
September was a month packed with events and excitement, or at least what passes for excitement at my age.
The month started on a high, because on the 1st I had tickets to see the mag… Read More
2023-09-01 15:39
The sling came off at the beginning of the month, so it was back to work. This meant a lot less time for reading, but I did still manage to read 10 books in the month, 2 of them non-fiction… Read More
2023-08-01 21:32
July was a month of mixed fortunes. A month of profit and pain.
After June broke my run of three months in a row of Premium Bond wins, I bounced right back in July with three wins that ca… Read More
2023-07-05 00:42
After months of dreary rain, cold, and high winds, I finally found some days suitable for flying my drone. The first attempt was just me on my own, down at Wytch Cross to get the hang of it… Read More
2023-06-26 15:34
This story caught my attention on the radio news this morning (“UK’s high rate of avoidable deaths linked to NHS woes”) and I think the headline is more than a bit misleadi… Read More
2023-06-26 13:01
Last night I watched Elton John’s Glastonbury set with a big grin and moist eyes. It was absolutely monumental. Yes he is getting on a bit, and everybody moaning about his voice is mis… Read More
2023-06-04 22:32
Close-up selfie taken by the drone
Well I finally got round to getting my drone off the ground today. My drone app said that it was not good to fly, because of the wind speed, especially… Read More
2023-06-03 00:44
I really should try to find the mental energy to write here more than once a month, but meanwhile here is a summary of the recently-finished May. It was a good month. Any month with three ba… Read More
2023-05-01 21:18
With the days getting noticeably longer and it feeling like there were a few days without rain, I can only blame laziness for the fact that I walked a lot less in April than in March &ndash&hell…Read More
2023-04-01 20:18
Apparently the wettest March for a long time, and it felt like it. It was a relentlessly depressing dampness all the way through, but with sufficient breaks in the weather for me to get out… Read More
2023-03-08 09:05
The other day I realised that my slippers were falling apart. With all this working from home, combined with trying to stay in the warm as much as possible means that I get a lot more use ou… Read More
2023-03-03 11:35
Another month where I didn’t do a lot or go out much – too bloody cold for me!
I did actually drive the car for the first time in 2023 – only for about a mile to pick Ja… Read More
2023-03-03 11:12
I did that thing you should never do the other day. I tried to fix a trivial error by tweaking settings a bit, without backing the site up first and broke it. At my age I should know better… Read More
2023-02-06 16:43
Tomorrow I have my regular three-monthly-ish post-cancer outpatients appointment – the first one in almost two years that will be face-to-face rather than on the phone. Back in Septemb… Read More
2023-02-05 02:06
I was looking at some of the releases over at SuperDeluxeEdition today, and two in particular caught my eye. One was the 50th anniversary special edition reissue of Elton John’s Honky… Read More
2023-02-01 12:43
This year I have been trying to keep track of what I am up to. Not keeping a diary as such, just noting down various stuff. The reason is that when it comes to the end of a year I look back… Read More
2023-01-14 02:36
I have inadvertently become one of those people who keep their vinyl LPs in plastic sleeves.
This is not because I am precious about my small collection. I have always looked after record… Read More
2023-01-11 01:42
…and nowhere to go! One of my Christmas presents from Jayne was a nice pair of chunky motorbike boots. A belated present to myself was a new helmet. I decided to treat myself for a fe… Read More
2023-01-11 01:27
First things first. I realise that I have started to get carried away. Having created a playlist with one track per year of my life about 5 years ago (I think) I subsequently decided to writ… Read More
2023-01-02 23:33
This year has not seen the usual proliferation of huge tubs of chocolate. Neither of us can really eat much chocolate without suffering from dumping syndrome, so it has been best to not have… Read More
2022-12-22 10:14
“Christmas” and “routine” are not entirely compatible. Over the holiday period all sorts of routines get disrupted, which is potentially a problem for anybody who is… Read More
2022-12-19 15:04
On Saturday, down in Hampshire I actually saw some Police involvement in pavement parking. Unfortunately their involvement was entirely to help somebody park their car on the pavement… Read More
2022-12-07 00:39
The trend for same-sex couple son Strictly is causing me some problems; not because I am anti-gay but because I am almost entirely ignorant of popular culture these days.
The thing is… Read More
2022-11-29 00:23
At the weekend I had a walk into the town centre for a look around. I wasn’t going for anything specific. It was really just to get some exercise and to catch up with some podcasts whi… Read More
2022-11-21 00:45
I’m not sure I can cope with all the hassle of moving to, and learning about, a new platform, but if Twitter does go completely tits-up it is either that or abandon social media comple… Read More
2022-11-21 00:21
It is nearly December. The time of year when I remember how bad I am at financial planning. Already my e-mail inbox is over-flowing with reminders of annual payments and subscriptions that w… Read More
2022-11-03 23:57
With all the talk of massive energy bills I found myself in the strange position this week of complaining to my energy supplier that they are not charging me enough for electricity, which is… Read More
2022-10-30 01:37
At the moment I am still enjoying the novelty of having a turntable again and the rituals of playing a vinyl record. For a start there is that way of holding an LP by the edges and flipping… Read More
2022-10-25 00:30
Last week I had my first taste of overseas travel since before the pandemic, and the first outing for my new black passport. It wasn’t my first flight of the year: I have had three fli… Read More
2022-10-12 14:32
Today’s post saw the arrival of my belated birthday present from the NHS: a bowel cancer screening kit.
Obviously this is going to involve me posting a stool sample to some laborato… Read More
2022-10-11 23:00
No apologies for mentioning my recent birthday again. It was a big one after all. This is about people that I share my birthday with.
I already knew that I shared my birthday with Seb Coe… Read More
2022-10-09 21:04
It looks like I now have a hobby at last. For my 60th birthday the kids clubbed together and bought me a drone. A proper serious one. Apparently there are implications and extra conditions f… Read More
2022-10-09 11:56
After neglecting this site for a couple of years, I finally got round to updating the version of WordPress and I am still finding my way round it and sorting out a couple of glitches, so thi… Read More
2022-10-09 11:54
Quite a long time ago I sold my turntable (a gorgeous Linn Sondek LP12) and all of my vinyl. We were moving to a smaller house and the vinyl was taking up a lot of space, not to mention the… Read More
2022-10-09 01:52
So. The place where I host all this is upgrading the version of php and this site was not compatible with the new version of php. My fault for not touching anything for ages: I had an ancien… Read More
2022-10-08 15:38
It looks like I have not posted anything here for 8 months, because I really haven’t posted anything here for 8 months.
Maybe this is a sign that the new job I started back in February… Read More
2022-02-07 01:19
Well. 2021 was another year of not going out much wasn’t it? Another year of (mostly) working from home, and then staying at home afterwards. There was fresh air of course, as I was ge… Read More
2022-01-15 00:16
They say that you can’t or shouldn’t judge a book by it’s cover, but what about records?
If the front cover has a picture of a skull in a space helmet, a band name of King… Read More
2021-11-09 23:13
Today I reached the end of a long and double-delayed journey when I passed the road test to get my full motorcycle licence. It took nearly four years, but I got there in the end.I started th… Read More
2021-08-11 15:53
In the last year or two I have been discovering the joys of pre-ordering stuff online. I know that some pedants have issues with the term ‘pre-order’, but we all know what it mea… Read More
2021-06-05 23:44
Back when I was younger, say 18 or before then, I really didn’t read autobiographies, or even biographies come to that. Mind you it does depend on how you define ‘autobiography&r&hell…Read More
2021-04-07 00:26
Having an earworm is a fairly frequent event for me, but I have had a really strange one today, even by my standards.
Earworm is defined by the Collins Dictionary website, rather unsatisfact… Read More
2021-03-03 00:27
I went for a walk today, which is quite a big deal for me because I haven’t been able to really appreciate a long walk for ages until the last few days. Its all to do with Raynaud&rsqu&hell…Read More
2021-02-08 00:33
During the last few days I have been doing some catching up with watching some things I have been putting off for a while, with mixed levels of enjoyment.First of all I watched the film The… Read More
2021-01-02 01:53
It is that time of the year again. The time when I add another track to my Spotify playlist, the one that has one song for every year I have been around. I have now added a 59th track to it… Read More
2020-12-31 01:31
One of my presents this year was the box set re-issue of Sheep Farming in Barnet by Toyah. A bit of a nostalgia-fest, but actually I don’t think I actually had this LP despite being a… Read More
2020-12-25 00:49
I am going to have a fantastic Christmas this year! I know. There is still covid-19 going on, our area moving into tier 4 on Saturday, Brexit, and all sorts of other general unpleasantness… Read More
2020-10-04 01:10
Have I Got News For You is celebrating its 30th year now and although it has its moments it really is showing its age now. I have watched it from the start and do still watch it, but that is… Read More
2020-08-16 17:07
There are some things that are so obvious and ingrained that you don’t notice them until they are pointed out, after which you can’t not see them again. The difference between ho… Read More
2020-08-02 00:56
This week came the news that Argos will no longer be producing their catalogue in paper form. The legendary ‘laminated book of dreams’ will be a thing of the past, but what a pas… Read More
2020-07-27 00:01
I see that the government want to encourage more people to take up cycling to improve health by reducing obesity. While it is easy to pick holes in this, the gist of it is very laudable. The… Read More
2020-07-17 00:41
I try to keep an open mind generally, but I don’t have a lot of time for conspiracy theories and usually dismiss them immediately because they are just so obviously preposterous. I&rsq&hell…Read More
2020-07-09 00:45
I am in a bit of a miserable ranting mood today so I’ll vent a bit about collective nouns. If there is one aspect of language that irritates me more than coy euphemisms it is collectiv… Read More
2020-07-08 00:48
There is a lot of change coming. Some of it necessitated by the Covid-19 experience and some of it self-inflicted by Brexit. I do try to embrace change and welcome it because, like most peop… Read More
2020-07-07 00:19
If you went back to the mid-80s and told me that one day I would be nostalgic for Reagan and Thatcher in another 35 years I would have refused to believe it, but here we are and we hav… Read More
2020-07-03 00:17
Time for another quick unsolicited testimonial, this time for the wonderful Burning Shed online shop. Here are a few reasons to love the website:
Specialising in stuff a bit outside the main… Read More
2020-06-26 10:28
I see the department of the bleeding obvious have been at it again, according to this story in today’s Times.
It is a study about people’s attitudes to the lockdown. Apparently p… Read More
2020-06-26 00:02
When I listed the various people, mostly entertainers, who helped make the lockdown pass a bit more easily I missed a few people out. For example I forgot the always brilliant Jonathan Pie a… Read More
2020-06-23 23:27
It has been a little while since I blurted out one of my bright ideas, about six years actually. In that time I have still had ideas of course; some of them impractical, some of them impossi… Read More
2020-06-20 01:39
I have been watching a DVD box set of the 80s TV show Shelley. I found myself wondering what Josephine Tewson, the actress who played the landlady, Mrs. Hawkins, went on to do, so I looked h… Read More
2020-06-20 01:17
Let’s be honest here, the lockdown has really ended now hasn’t it? OK, there are no pubs, cafes, theatres, music and sports venues, but otherwise I think a lot of people are now… Read More
2020-06-16 00:02
The other night I was watching a re-run of an old Sky Arts show from 2016 – Trailblazers. This one was all about prog rock. I have watched a few of these. They are entertaining enough… Read More
2020-06-04 23:20
Another thing that struck me while working my way through the box set of the Goodies was the sparsity of the credits.
We are so used to movies where it takes 15 minutes to scroll through all… Read More
2020-05-31 20:18
Some time between Christmas and the start of the lockdown I treated myself to the box set of the complete BBC episodes of the Goodies. I expected I would binge-watch it all in no time at all… Read More
2020-05-25 09:40
I think I have mentioned that, in the list of albums I would consider to be all-killer-no-filler, debut albums are disproportionately represented, and this is another example. It is a very p… Read More
2020-05-14 00:14
One by one, I am gradually becoming all the things that I used to find annoying, or saying things that used to annoy me when other people said them. It was bad enough when I started catching… Read More
2020-05-13 22:49
For the last few months, like anybody else who is able to, I have been working from home. It hasn’t actually been a massive adjustment because I had only just got used to being back in… Read More
2020-04-19 23:00
A couple of weeks ago I received that letter from the NHS that was, apparently, being sent out to 1.5 million people who are deemed to be vulnerable. While I don’t feel particularly vu… Read More
2020-04-08 00:23
Some people are spending this period of lockdown being very creative, learning a new skill, taking up a new hobby, or catching up on books and TV they never quite had the time for previously… Read More
2020-02-07 01:14
The other day I came across a job. I wasn’t looking, it was one of those e-mails from LinkedIn that says “here’s a job you might be interested in” and I had a little… Read More
2020-02-06 00:55
I seem to have my reading mojo back at last, which is making me very happy indeed.
Last year I had stocked up on e-books, expecting to be reading a lot while in hospital and afterwards in re… Read More
2020-01-03 02:28
Now we are firmly into 2020 (Happy New Year BTW) it is time to increment my 1962 onwards playlist by another tune.
Deciding what to put on there was a tough decision because there was so muc… Read More
2019-12-26 14:09
It is possible that yesterday was the best Christmas ever. It went a bit pear-shaped after midnight when the dog threw up over the bedroom floor, but that was after midnight so doesn’t… Read More
2019-12-25 02:01
I have been watching old episodes of Scorpion on Netflix over the last couple of weeks. It is a very annoying programme for several reasons, but quite entertaining. Apparently it was suppose… Read More
2019-12-25 01:18
I don’t think its a secret that I am not a fan of Christmas. I’m not ashamed of that, not proud, it just is what it is. I just don’t get it or buy into all the fuss about i… Read More
2019-12-07 18:48
Spotify have this ‘wrapped’ feature where they tell you what your most listened to songs and artists are for the year. A bit premature when there is nearly a twelfth of the year… Read More
2019-10-22 23:20
In an effort to get more steps under my belt I have been walking a lot around the Manor Royal estate. It is supposed to be an industrial estate but the definition of industry is quite loose… Read More
2019-10-10 00:23
Last month I snapped up Trevor Noah’s autobiographical book, Born a Crime while it was the 99p Kindle deal of the day. I kind of regret that because it is very much worth the full pric… Read More
2019-10-02 13:27
Following on from last night’s moan about the Guardian’s 100 best TV shows, I remembered a few other shows that really should have been in there:
Elementary – An alternativ… Read More
2019-10-02 00:48
The Guardian has been running a series about the so-called best culture of the 21st Century. One of the articles is about the 100 best TV shows of the 21st Century. Now I am no expert in TV… Read More
2019-09-29 00:02
This week we returned from a 10-day visit to Crete. It was the most boring holiday Jayne and I have ever had, but that is not a bad thing. In the past we have rented a car or quad and gone o… Read More
2019-09-28 15:12
I just had a look at the ‘My Clippings’ section on my Kindle and seen all the bits of text that I have highlighted over the years. Some of them are quite random, but a few are wo… Read More
2019-09-12 00:40
I saw one of these in a car the other day…
On the one hand its a clever way to mount a phone in your car, using the now-redundant CD slot to hold it. on the other hand it just makes… Read More
2019-08-11 00:47
I have spent an inappropriate amount of time thinking about this. The more trivial something is, the more thought I give it for some reason. I have bought houses and cars almost on a whim, b… Read More
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