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Friday, 27 March 2015

A pleasant meal, then a ‘right-wing’ revelation: just how meaningless are such political labels? Totally meaningless, a complete waste of time and space or just more bloody twaddle??

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Another meal. A triumph? Well, as I was the cook, I don’t know. It’s not for me to say. I enjoyed it, but then I can enjoy a nicely peeled o...
Thursday, 26 March 2015

Just a couple more to keep you going. If you like this sort of schlock, you’ll love these. If not . . .

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This first is Nobody’a Supposed To Be Here by Deborah Cox from her album One Wish. Your browser does not support this audio Deborah Cox - ...
Monday, 23 March 2015

Come on, fair’s fair – if Jerry Seinfeld can own 46 Porsches, why am I a nutter for owning six Mac laptops? Well, I’m not, of course, I’m ‘a collector’. So there!

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Let me first of all tell you how many laptops I have, most used by me, two used by my children, and one provided by the paper I work for (an...
Friday, 20 March 2015

Something to be getting on with while I get my act together and tell you about my THREE new Mac laptops (bought secondhand, but in great condition) and desperately try to convince you that I am not a nutter. No, sirree, me a nutter who can’t stop buy laptops he doesn’t really need? She’s called Lina and writes and sings great songs

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If these don’t play, load for you or even appear, try a different browser. They certainly work in Chrome, sometimes in Firefox and Safari, r...
Monday, 16 March 2015

The art of marketing: forget Leonardo and Joe Bach - our Jasmine and Piet have just had a wizard wheeze! And a few comments. Also latest on Putin: he’s back (but won't say where he was)

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In the course of pursuing an honest living engaged in my day job and ensuring there will be bread on the table of my nearest and dearest (ch...
Thursday, 12 March 2015

‘Putin ill’ shock. What can that mean for house prices?

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There seems to be quite a crowded agenda of things which are about go belly up and disrupt our lives accordingly. Many, if not most, need no...
Thursday, 5 March 2015

Just for the craic, to keep you occupied while I think up my next inconsequential, derivative, faux relevant entry.

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I was looking for some piccies I once used in this blog - the entry was about personal internet radios - and searching Google images I came ...
Monday, 16 February 2015

Principles? I have several, though not quite the kind you are thinking off. And who is this Vladislav Surkov? Answers on the usual postcard, please. As for ‘media studies’ degrees, well, stick ‘em up your jacksie (Prof Peter Cole and Prof Roy Greenslade, once, in a saner life when they didn’t take themselves quite so seriously, Pete and Roy from the Pig and Whistle)

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It would be misleading – ironically, given who we are dealing with – to claim the print industry – that’s ‘newspapers’ in words we can all u...
Tuesday, 10 February 2015

Hold on to your hats, times are getting more interesting

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If one can take a dispassionate view of something, not be swayed by emotion but examine it as a doctor might examine a broken leg, now is th...
Tuesday, 3 February 2015

America Russia, Russia America – I’d like to explore both, but Russia does have an added morbid fascination. Oh, and let me introduce you to one Vitali Dyomochka, who has a lot going for him (not least, I suspect, a good brain)

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It’s odd how you come across people and facts which interest you. I have long considered – once I retire and have saved enough money to do s...