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Wednesday, 23 August 2017

If you are going to waste time, might as well waste it like this: some of those one-offs I like and you might, too

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NB The soundfiles posted here no longer worked as the method I was using was wrecked by Google revamping its sites feature. So I have found ...
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Saturday, 19 August 2017

What’s this hang-up with ‘meaning’? Might it explain by Dylan was so slow to collect his Nobel Prize. I do think it might

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NB There are soundfiles in this entry which your browser might not be able to play. I don’t think Opera does well on that score. In that cas...
Tuesday, 1 August 2017

More snaps from the past, rescued from Guy's House, that old, old renovated 16th-century cottage none of us knows much about.

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I took a week off work last week and set about clearing what we call Guy’s House of all the shite that has accumulated there over since my f...
Sunday, 23 July 2017

Old farts and why they are best avoided (at any age)

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NB I’ve noticed when later reading through a blog entry I have posted that there are literals and that sometimes a thread of thought goes aw...
Friday, 21 July 2017

There can be no going back now (or at least not without looking extremely bloody stupid)

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Just under a month ago, I began digging myself a hole – and did so in the full knowledge of what I was doing - by publicly declaring in this...
Saturday, 8 July 2017

There’s we Brits, all dull, common or garden Anglo-Saxon empiricism, and there’s the exciting adventurous French, all chic away-with-the-fairies rationalism (‘I think, therefore I shall tell you all about it a great incomprehensible length, my intellectual life, my unusual sex life, the bearing it has on my intellectual life . . .’) and when a certain kind meets another certain kind, the outcome is rarely fruitful or happy

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Years ago - 28 if you’re asking - I went with the film critic (and education correspondent) of the South Wales Echo, a film producer friend ...
Friday, 23 June 2017

How many self-delusional bullshiters populate Mother Earth? Well, I’m hoping there will soon be one fewer

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Tonight, ladies and gentlemen, I am about to dig myself a huge hole, and if I’m not careful I shall fall into it. And if I do, apart from po...
Sunday, 11 June 2017

In which I descend to thoroughly trivial matters, including the farce which British politics has become in a matter of 24 hours

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To be honest, the only reason I am writing this entry is that I was about to revert the ‘Election Special’, photo above for the original ar...