Book reviews

▼

Film reviews

▼

Random images

▼
Sunday, 28 February 2016

You want a hero, look elsewhere

›
I’ve long suspected that I would never have made hero (the past transitional conjunctive tense or whatever it is is appropriate here because...
Saturday, 27 February 2016

What makes a short break in Rome not the pleasure it should be? Sodding chronic hives. At least Italy might win today’s Six Nations match against Scotland

›
Rome I’m here nominally for tomorrow’s Italy v Scotland Six Nations match at the Olympic Stadium, but actually the game, although I am loo...
Friday, 5 February 2016

Should we stay or should we go? Who knows and, to be frank, who cares? The way things are there might in time no longer be an EU to leave

›
My apologies to anyone who happens to come across this blog - or even makes a point of visiting it - and who is from South Korea, Australia...
2 comments:
Saturday, 30 January 2016

All good things come in threes, and as this post is about harmony - well, roughly - here is a third collection of tracks you might like, all vaguely related

›
As I’ve said before, these soundfiles should play fine on your Mac using Safari, Chrome and Firefox, and on a Windows PC using Internet Expl...
Thursday, 28 January 2016

A bit more jazz for those who like that kind of thing. And those who don’t are banned from this blog for a week.

›
These soundfiles should play fine on your Mac using Safari, Chrome and Firefox, and on a Windows PC using Internet Explorer, Chrome and Fire...
Friday, 22 January 2016

New music and one way to come across it (though I'm sure there are many others. And if you have any jazz you can recommend, get in touch). Некоторые джаз для моих русских друзей.

›
These soundfiles should play fine on your Mac using Safari, Chrome and Firefox, and on a Windows PC using Internet Explorer, Chrome and Fire...
Wednesday, 20 January 2016

Ever wondered why ‘hat’ rhymes with ‘prat’? But what’s a little pink between friends? Can’t we settle for ‘light red’? Please?

›
I don’t think anyone of my family, relatives, friends or acquaintances would describe me as a stylish man, and I must admit I have very litt...
1 comment:
Thursday, 31 December 2015

In which I risk, at best, ostracism, and, at worst, death when I proclaim: The Beatles were great for about four years. After that the went badly off the boil, not least after three of the four of them began believing their own bullshit

›
NB At the end of this post are three soundfiles. Just click start to hear any of them. If you are using a Windows machine, they work (on Win...
1 comment:
Friday, 25 December 2015

A Merry Christmas to you all, but there’s still a dash of vinegar here (I hope)

›
As I write, it is mid-afternoon on Christmas Day and I am sitting at my stepmother’s bedside in Bodmin Hospital where she has been transferr...
Saturday, 12 December 2015

Я рад видеть Вас и добро пожаловать. And in newspapers facts are said to be sacred, but not quite as much as sales - use your discretion

›
Я рад видеть Вас и добро пожаловать I tend to look at the stats for this blog every morning when I check my email, and a few days ago I not...
1 comment: