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Wednesday, 23 November 2016

They’re all bloody biting the dust (though me liking them has nothing to do with it, honest): RIP Leon Russell

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I was looking up something entirely different on YouTube and came across a posting of Leon Russell’s A Song For You, one of my favourite son...
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Friday, 18 November 2016

My brother and sister arrive and I am urged to calm down. Oh, and I clear up confusion about my alleged communist past, a past which, if anything, lasted no longer than it takes to tick a box

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In view of what you are about to read, I must immediately concede that these are my views and naturally one-sided, though how you can set ab...
Thursday, 10 November 2016

So Trump’s next for the White House: did the birds fall out of the sky where you live? No, not here, either. And as Leonard Cohen has finally played his last gig, I give you one of his - co-written - songs, though mercifully not his version, but one by Holly Figuera O’Reilly

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The dust has settled neither on the Brexit vote held almost five months ago, nor the US presidential vote last Tuesday which say Trump take ...
Friday, 4 November 2016

As the US sleepwalks to disaster (whoever wins next Tuesday) and Breakfast most certainly no longer means Breakfast, are you stupid or part of the liberal elite? Or possibly both? Or even neither?

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Perhaps the good folk living on Rimatara don’t yet know it or perhaps they do know but don’t care, but the good folk here in the Western hem...
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...