Seven Days In

"The Bone Season"   by   Samantha Shannon ,  is a brilliant read but a big book, It is a near future dystopia with elements o...

  Enjoying the Samplers section of  "Copendium"  the  700-page treatise on music by  Julian Cope ,  and we are into the third ...

Into the last hundred pages of  "Copendium"  the  700-page treatise on music by  Julian Cope ,  and the album reviews fin...

  I have finished   "The Great Gatsby"   by   F Scott Fitzgerald   and to me, it is very American and reminds me a lot of  ...

"The Wind Whales of Ishmael" turned out to be a 130-page interlude into a non-Armageddon end of the world scenario and though...

I am over half way through "Steppenwolf" and in some ways wouldn't recommend it to anybody, but the fact I am half way throug...

  Following on from my previous post. I had planned to do 25K steps at first , then that went up to 30K then I decided on 15 miles . 2,250 ...

The weather doesn't really seem to be improving, still cold , wet , dreich.  This is my thirteenth post this year , though the second t...

Heaven Knows ......I'm miserable now. Well not really , yesterday started with more snow , and though it's cold it looks nice , rel...

It's that last day of January 2021 , and this will probably be my last post of January 2021. It is sort of strange to think that this w...

 At the weekend was talking about my favourite New Order songs and my top two I thought were "Temptation" and "Love Vigilant...

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

I think this is #LikeNoOther #11 though I  may have missed one out as it's ages since I posted in this series. Nadine Shah has rel...

I am always positive, looking for positives in any situation. As I was make breakfast , porridge and coffee, I ran out of milk. This me...

This year I was determined not to post so much, and although I am posting less than last year I am still posting. There are seldom two ...