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2022-12-03 11:22
I am an unrepentant bookworm and have been since childhood. I learned to read early, and there is a family story of how my mum signed me up to the local library very young because of this… Read More
I’m Getting My Skates On…
2021-12-10 01:11
… as the saying goes! Busy catching up with all the Advent Calendar posts – I’ll be up to date before you know it…. Incidentally, you won’t catch me ice skati… Read More
Vintage Advertising: Christmas Shopping
2021-12-02 11:30
Last week saw the annual reappearance of Black Friday, which apparently means the Christmas shopping season is now officially underway. Black Friday started life as an American tradition in… Read More
2020-11-17 21:33
Just a quick drive-by post today…. what’s that you say? You can’t hear me? I said JUST A QUICK DRIVE-BY POST TODAY… Bloody pneumatic drills. Like all the best thin… Read More
Eddie Van Halen (1955-2020)
2020-10-07 14:20
Eddie Van Halen (2015)Bill: Ted, while I agree that, in time, our band will be most triumphant, the truth is, Wyld Stallyns will never be a super-band until we get Eddie Van Halen on guitar… Read More
March Update: The Coronavirus Edition
2020-03-31 20:24
Like most of you, I’m stuck at home due to the coronavirus. I’m having to be very careful, since my deeply confused and unhappy immune system has a tendency to go into complete… Read More
Thank You!
2020-03-27 03:54
A huge and appreciative thank you to the NHS, emergency services, train and bus drivers, retail workers, pharmacists, binmen, postal workers, teachers, delivery drivers, utilities workers, s… Read More
Playlisting: Andrew Weatherall
2020-03-19 03:10
Andrew Weatherall at Headstart, Turnmills, London (2001)Just what is it that you want to do? We wanna be free. We wanna be free to do what we wanna do. And we wanna get loaded, and we wanna… Read More
Farewell To The European Union
2020-02-01 01:11
I’m thoroughly ashamed of my country sometimes. As the sun sets on our membership of the European Union, I could only find this to say. It seemed rather apt under the circumstances. N… Read More
Weird And Wonderful: Santa On The Beach
2019-12-23 01:51
Even Santa needs a holiday! Actually, he probably needs a holiday more than most – his Christmas Eve duties must be exhausting. Here he is, relaxing on a Florida beach with several re… Read More
Christmas In Space: The ISS Edition
2019-12-22 02:00
ISS-38: Astronaut Mike Hopkins on a Christmas Eve Spacewalk (2013)Imagine Christmas in zero-gravity. Pouring the gravy on your turkey dinner would certainly be a bit of a challenge for a sta… Read More
When Santa Visited Christmas
2019-12-19 23:15
Last year, we visited the Florida settlement of Christmas (apparently home to the world’s largest concrete alligator too, but that’s by the by) and saw some rather lovely photos… Read More
Santa Claus, The Pub Crawl
2019-12-19 23:12
Blimey. Not sure I should have had that third helping of sherry trifle – I’m seeing multiple Santas now! This jolly festive overspill was snapped at the famous World’s End… Read More
Bringing In The Mistletoe (1959)
2019-12-18 16:21
I’ve been seeing a lot of Christmas decorations going up this last week or so (although someone on my street has actually had their tree up since Halloween!). I’m still catching… Read More
Playlisting: Hail Santa!
2019-12-17 18:04
Embed from Getty ImagesChristmas is Metal. No, really. It is. It is known. You need to trust me on this. It’s true. Christmas goes all the way up to eleven and then some… See?… Read More
2019-12-11 18:32
‘Christmas Mail’ (c. 1910-15)In recent years, we’ve met the world’s most organised dog, a clumsy wartime comic and some of the people of Christmas, Florida (watch out… Read More
2019-11-19 16:08
A few months back, I wrote a post about my local wildlife, which many of you seemed to enjoy. You’ll be pleased to hear, then, that the foxes are still being daft, the parakeets are s… Read More
Creepy Vintage: Gas Mask Replica*
2019-11-02 20:40
I found these images whilst rummaging through a huge number of official and public domain archive photos taken during both World Wars, and they immediately stood out in a flash of weirdness… Read More
November Update
2019-11-01 01:03
Until Sunday, there will be lots more spooky stuff as we come to the end of Halloween Week, plus a few men with odd-shaped balls and interesting moustaches will drop (goal) by in celebratio… Read More
2019-10-25 23:21
Well, not quite yet… but Jack Pumpkinhead would like to welcome you to Halloween Week on Another Kind Of Mind anyway… (don’t worry, he’s friendly). Watch out for l… Read More
2019-10-25 14:02
Fifteen years ago today, the world of music lost a legend. Yep, it’s really fifteen years since John Peel died (surely not – where has the time gone?) and, as always, Another Ki… Read More
Vintage Magpies!
2019-10-20 20:11
I found some vintage magpies! These beaky little balls of annoyed monochrome fluff could very well be the 1930s ancestors of our very own Toon Magpies – they may not look much like th… Read More
Vintage Cricket: The 1900 Olympic Games
2019-09-15 18:18
Poster advertising the Olympic cricket match between France and Great Britain This is a poster advertising the only game of Olympic cricket that has ever been played. It happened over two da… Read More
Happy 10th Birthday, Another Kind Of Mind!
2019-08-27 23:59
Kittens and a birthday cake (1914) Remember the grumpy Victorian kittens who popped by a few Christmases ago? Well, they’re back, they’ve put on their best frocks, and they&rsquo&hell…Read More
Get Out And VOTE!
2019-05-22 23:39
Short and sweet. British friends, this is really, really important. Get out there and vote in the European elections today. Polling stations are open between 7am and 10pm, so you have no ex… Read More
Happy 2019!
2019-01-01 00:03
Some officers of a Scottish Division on New Year’s Day (c. 1918) It’s New Year’s Eve, and I’ve been feeling thoughtful… Round about one hundred years ago, this… Read More
Merry Christmas To One And All!
2018-12-25 09:58
However you celebrate and wherever you’re from (and wherever you’re at for the festive season), I hope you have a very merry Christmas! For lots more seasonal reading, click the… Read More
A Thoroughly Modern Santa Returns!
2018-12-24 17:08
Last Christmas Eve, we contemplated what might happen if Santa had got hold of a motor car in the early days of internal combustion engines (I’m still wondering if poor old unemployed… Read More
Beware The Yule Cat!
2018-12-11 15:53
I am really very fond of kitties, big and small. Ask anyone who knows me well, and they’ll tell you I’m a mad cat lady in training. But I think I would run away screaming if I e… Read More
Happy Halloween!
2018-10-31 21:11
Hope you all have lots of spooky fun tonight – as you can see, the Skull Twins are getting the party started here at Another Kind Of Mind Towers! I usually have at least one proper Ha… Read More
2018-10-21 22:41
Photo by Torsten Dettlaff on Pexels.com Many of you know that I’m a passionate football fan, and I very much enjoy writing about the Beautiful Game. Over the past decade or so, I have… Read More
2018-04-02 22:58
The Kitchen Birdwatcher’s essential kit I live in west London, right under the Heathrow flightpath, and my flat backs on to a fairly busy railway line that sometimes sees traffic at al… Read More
2018-03-01 21:35
I ventured out into the snowy wilds of west London this afternoon. It was icy cold and the biting wind made it feel even colder, but as I left my building I was amused to spot this adorable… Read More
2018-02-14 17:28
It’s Valentine’s Day, and love is in the air… Or perhaps not, if you’re me! But because I’m a soppy old romantic (no, really, I am), I thought I’d share… Read More
2018-01-01 02:46
I’ve been to a fair few extremely messy New Years Eve parties in my time (I don’t actually remember much of Millennium Eve, or NYE the year prior to that, to take but two hazy e… Read More
A Thoroughly Modern Santa?
2017-12-24 19:00
The sleigh got clamped and is languishing in dusty obscurity in a garage somewhere near the North Pole, and poor old Rudolph has been deemed surplus to requirements and has unceremoniously… Read More
Christmas In London: Snow Joke!
2017-12-23 23:53
Dealing with inclement weather at this time of the year is nothing new. We’ve had some snow in London already this December, but it’s unlikely to be a white Christmas here this… Read More
2017-12-19 17:37
Way back in 2010, I wrote a Christmas post examining how the festive season was celebrated in the 17th century. This was a period of great upheaval in British culture and society, especiall… Read More
2017-12-09 15:04
You may recall that I wrote an article on the cult American punk/alternative musician Bob Mould for the excellent Toppermost music site a couple of years ago. Now, it seems that my scribbles… Read More
2017-11-25 16:43
As with many things in life, I came across this somewhat bizarre little newsreel clip while I was looking for something else entirely (I was actually searching YouTube for videos of footbal… Read More
2017-11-19 19:15
This is the view from my living room window. Lovely, isn’t it? I can see these beautiful sycamore trees from my desk, and they make a great distraction when writer’s block comes… Read More
2017-10-25 20:35
Today marks the thirteenth anniversary of the death of John Peel, so I’m Keeping It Peel with a choice session from his long-running Radio 1 show. Since we also tragically lost Soundg… Read More
2017-10-12 12:00
Usually, my Playlisting posts involve music, but this one is a little different. Today, we’ll be overrun by pine martens on the pitch, alligators and capybaras on the golf course (not… Read More
Lost Property: The Sequel
2017-10-03 17:08
Shark shown for illustrative purposes only. Posed by a model. I’ve long been fascinated by the forgetfulness of human beings. There seems to be a limit to the capacity of the human bra… Read More
A Small Celebration Of Yorkshire Day
2017-08-01 20:34
Today is Yorkshire Day, an annual celebration of all things connected to God’s Own County, as it is affectionately known. Although I am a Londoner born and bred, I know that a great n… Read More
2017-06-08 18:26
We’re voting for the future of our society and public services here. Do you really want to see the Tories continuing their reckless destruction of all the things that are important to… Read More
To Dare Is To Do: Farewell White Hart Lane
2017-05-14 11:20
Click to view slideshow. I grew up on the Beautiful Game. I’m of the generation whose pre-Premier League childhood memories associate the game with dodgy perms and mullets (hello Chris… Read More
2017-04-02 20:44
Inspired by a recent tweet on the subject of such songs, this time I threw the Playlisting suggestions box open to my Twitter followers. And, as ever, they didn’t let me down. Thank yo… Read More
Albums Of The Year 2016
2017-01-11 17:03
One of said favourite record stores. I know, it’s already January 2017 – but better late than never… Having spent a large chunk of 2016 pretty much immobile, I haven&rsquo&hell…Read More
2016-06-22 19:28
Politics has been a part of my life for as long as I can remember. I studied the subject at A-Level and as an undergraduate back in the 1990s, and participation in the democratic process has… Read More
June Update
2016-06-05 23:40
Hello my dear, patient readers. My ankle. Stylish, no? You may have noticed that I haven’t posted for quite some time. I apologise for this. Sometimes life just gets in the way –… Read More

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