Seven Days In

The sky is a uniform grey and it's raining and drizzling a perfect situation for the word "dreich"  , not exactly great w...

On Friday I'd decided that hitting my 340K steps this May for the rolling Million Step Challenge was unlikely to happen , then yest...

When Brian Matthew used to do "Sounds of the 60s" he'd get communications similar to "my husband's favourite rec...

Yesterday, for the first time in a long time, I walked to and from work. Both walks were in the dark as it's autumn and the days ar...

I'm really enjoying the final Stephen Hawking book which while I don't understand a great deal of it, it is a great book for st...

Well I am reading the appendices of "The Illuminatus! Trilogy" and it's like nothing has changed. Same mad whirlwind mix ...

This morning I turned on the radio (Chris Hawkins on 6Music) and heard an absolute gorgeous brass riff playing, but also thought it sou...

I've hit quarter of a million visits on the blog since it started, and while I don't write a lot on each post, fairly bite size...

Switched on 6Music this morning and Chris Hawkins was playing "Gravel-Pit" by Wu-Tang Clan which for some reason reminded me ...

Sheet lightning , thunder , torrential rain, Bojo the poundshop Drumpf as Prime Minister, and now the rain has stopped , hopefully Bojo...

Just a short post to say how good it is to go to bed early and actually sleep well. That sort of happened last night night and I'v...

That was the record playing on the Chris Hawkins show when I switched on 6Music this morning. The rain has stopped and it's a Frid...

The sky is grey and it's raining. I normally like rain but at the moment it's a threat because I have an intermittent roof lea...

Another made up word, although it may be real. Sometimes Google is a positive. Turns out there are bands, artists , twitter users wit...

Looking out of the window and there is an amazing cloud formation overhead. Here's my nstagram post. Well it looks like the s...

Remember that for competitions and requests? This morning I emailed John Hilcock standing in for Chris Hawkins on 6Music and got a p...

I was going to call this post "Manic Depression" but I thought that it might lead people in who might think it might provi...

That was a word Chris Hawkins used to described the cold this morning. The laminate kitchen floor was so cold that I had to put slippe...

Yesterday we woke up to a decent snowfall, two or three inches deep in parts as I walked into work. We had sun and the snow started to...