I bought a bike today. I went along to check them out but found one that I liked and had the money sitting in a Building Society account so I bought it. I’m very pleased with it and will no doubt take some photos tomorrow to post here – when it has stopped raining.
Things have [...]
OK; so where was I?
As happens every so often, time has no time to spare and before you know it two weeks have gone by and no blogging.
In my last entry I talked about the visit of Snark Rapper to Edinburgh: last Saturday Mons Meg went off to enjoy one of our intermittent trips to [...]
I have been reading Honeyboy Edwards’ excellent autobiography “The World Don’t Own Me Nothing” of late. It is an excellent read and captures well his early days based in the Delta, hoboing around the US, playing guitar and harmonica, drinking white whiskey, stealing other people’s wives and generally having a wild time. While doing so [...]
The chill continues although there is something of a thaw in progress at present. Aside from my return to work this week, I have taken advantage of the time to do a lot of reading after a lengthy period during which I seemed to read very little. For the most part it has been science [...]
(Written Friday 20 November)
I haven’t written a train blog for quite some time, but I find myself once more zipping down the East Coast mainline en route to a Jake Thackray/Georges Brassens gig in Kent.
Despite yesterday being – it is said – the wettest day in the UK this century with Cumbria and parts of [...]
The title of today’s post is a direct lift from the title of Elijah Wald’s new book which I am currently enjoying a great deal. There are a couple of his books which I don’t have, but my habit now is simply to pre-order the minute he emails to say that he has another one [...]
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