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Saturday, 15 October 2016

As the blog says, nothing much about very little. I was going to write about liberal/metropolitan elites, but somehow sidetracked myself. But I least by the by I have learned a new word

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When I moved to London in 1990, at first commuting weekly from Cardiff where I had been living and working, then eventually shifting all my ...
Saturday, 8 October 2016

Rush, rush, sodding rush - the bane of my life and I wish I could stop it!

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If there is one thing I would change about myself, for the better, it would be to get rid of my tendency to rush almost everything. And I ha...
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Friday, 30 September 2016

A few tunes to be getting on with as you all get on today with preparing to make your maker (it might seem a long way off, but believe me that bus is coming). And a photo or two, most by me.

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Your browser does not support this audio Don’t Lose Your Mind Your browser does not support this audio The main title music from Gle...
Sunday, 25 September 2016

An entry for all of you who like a bit of twee crap about Mother Nature’s bounty

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My sister’s husband works for a pharma company, and don’t worry, I regularly harangue him on the evils his employers perpetuate, their cynic...
Thursday, 15 September 2016

Meanwhile, back on dry land I reflect on whether or not too substantial breakfasts should be subject to an EU directive: Jack Tar's diet might have been abysmal, but it did mean Britannia ruled the waves for several millennia (though I’m told the Dutch take a rather contrary view on the matter). Then there’s the matter of snapped photos and an accusation of insanity from my daughter (so to speak)

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First the good news I wasn’t seasick, not even a little. But then you don’t get too many storms in the Markenmeer north of Amsterdam, and wh...
Wednesday, 31 August 2016

Just killing time with a rant about tattoos . . . and then I get to hear John Scofield again

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I'm sitting in the Wetherspoon's in Heathrow's terminal 5 waiting for my flight which is not for another hour, and I find the be...
Tuesday, 23 August 2016

Recommended (for a second time): Howard Zinn’s A People’s History Of The United States. And I give Michelle a copy of it

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I’ve always been sceptical when folk talk of something changing their lives, a book, an encounter or whatever it might be, and I am not abou...
Sunday, 14 August 2016

Gomorrah, a few necessary comments. Very necessary comments

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After my last entry recommending Gomorrah as a great series to watch, and having watched two more episodes of the first series, I thought it...
Friday, 12 August 2016

Introducing Gomorrah, the TV series which has taken its place in my heart and which stands head and shoulders with Deadwood, The Sopranos and Damages. And I venture a slightly more personal entry, although I still don’t have the courage to go the whole hog

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After I’d seen all six series of the Sopranos twice (and bizarrely the sixth series was in two parts, so maybe there were seven series) as w...
Saturday, 30 July 2016

Merkel for the chop? Well, for about five minutes or at last as long as it took you to read a recent Daily Mail story. And ‘the will of the people’: just how bloody inconvenient is it going to become?

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Browsing as one does — OK, ‘as I do’ — browsing as one does the Daily Mail online website, I came across this story and it occurred to me ...