Seven Days In

A fifth of the way through   "Copendium"  the  700-page treatise on music by  Julian Cope ,  and we are into the 1970s, with Ali...

  "The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy"  by  Douglas Adams  ( a trilogy in five parts that combines wit and intelligent writin...

I was looking at all the books I have,  and was thinking "Will I ever read all of these?" . The same goes for DVDs and CDs . ...

I wasn't going to post tonight , but what the hell, I thought I'd then just dispose of a couple of things that were on my mind...

That bit where you are shaved, dressed, showered, contact lenses in, ready to go and then you realise you have your Annual Diabetic Re...

I've probably written about this before, but was talking with my son-in-law Mark , and daughters Juliet and Kirsty yesterday at a...

Was just wondering if my purchasing of vinyl was a sort of childhood regression. While I have never actually grown up, I do l...

Some Bridges I really like to maintain a positive attitude and generally post positive things in here, but I do notice that the ...

Work at the moment is quite intense , just a lot going on , so yesterday took time out and fancied a cooked meal . I wandered through to...

This weekend I drove 300 hundred inhospitable miles to and from Scotland. It that time I saw rain , snow , ice , surface flooding and co...

When I was young I had problems sleeping , which persisted up to getting a job as a computer operator working continental shifts which m...

Today was the last day in Ampleforth , tomorrow it's time to go home. Certainly needed time away from work to recover from the cough and...

Not me personally , but Chris Cornell of Soundgarden who was just being intervied on BBC Radio 6 , the best radio station in the world, o...

Amazon.co.uk Widgets Was just off to bed and this question sprang to mind. Why Vinyl . Audiophiles talk about the warmth missing from d...

Amazon.co.uk Widgets There's a lot of big boxes to celebrate anniversary releases , notably David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust and Pa...

With National Record Shop Day approaching I wandered down Northumberland to check out HMV, until recently your only source of music o...

Amazon.co.uk Widgets I was shocked to discover I have NO Black Sabbath Studio CDs in my collection . I have two compilations , the liv...

Amazon.co.uk Widgets Was just reading a review of the latest re-issue of Jethro Tull's Aqualung , which posited that the opening ri...