Seven Days In

 Sometimes you do wake up to nice little surprises. This morning I started my phone up up and there was a Paypal payment (one of the few no...

I reread books I like, mainly because my memory is fairly rubbish,but many years ago I picked up a book, I think from a ...

I am tired and wasn't going to write anything , but think I should write something, so may as well do it now and then maybe have  a...

The weather is nice and I think things are improving with the lack of vehicles and planes travelling. Wildlife is more prevalent and th...

A weird thing , last night I switched my phone (a Google Pixel ) off and put it on charge. It is always good to switch the off at some ...

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

Just reading the excellent "Notes on a Nervous Planet" and something came up that applies to me. I continually feel that I d...

This is just a short post to record numbers 7 and 8 in the #TenAlbumsInTenDays sequence adn they are: Tempest by Bob Dylan Have O...

Whether it's because I'm old and softm my preference is for cafe latte or milky coffee, and this has now caused me to relearn ...

Today we went to give a little moral support to our friend Helen who was partaking of her fifth Great North Run (same as Sir Mo Farah)...

This was going to be my second post yesterday for #August50, but I didn't get round to it so that's one failure to start off w...

Due to one thing and another , rain and Andrew and Glen's wonderful wedding , I didn't even hit 6K steps yesterday, although I...

Games For May - 1967 I was going to post a tune a day in May but I thing two songs in four days has scuppered that idea, although ...

I came up with the name for this blog as a travel blog about places I'd stayed, which maybe is a bit ambitious as I don't trave...

I was pleased to find that the latest version of BBC iPlayer now allows downloads to my phone, actually allowing the same as 4OD . Thi...

Nineteen days in and I had a great idea for todays post because of something that happened and now it's gone. I'm not going to have ...

The lyrics to the Joni Mitchell song are remarkable pertinent to to The Cloud we know todow. I keep getting bombarded with offers of ...

Six years ago I walked into my present place of work (at the time Orange )  and picked up a company newspaper .The front page of the arti...

...of 2013 and hoping it will be as enjoyable a year as 2012. Seen some great gigs , including several nights at The Stand in Newcastl...

Just a short post on EE 4G . It is excellent to be able to stream TV on applications such as iPlayer , but you do need to have a constant si...