Seven Days In

The  Stuart Maconie  book  "The Pie At Night"   is now on the North West Coast and apparently the author lived in Southport at the...

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 . ...

The intention was not to post as often as last year , and up to now I am outstripping last year, though last year i posted 50 times in ...

I'm glad to see that my posting is down this year, although I don't think the quality has improved any. I am listening to a l...

When I started "The God Delusion" it was Richard Dawkins stated aim to polarise my views towards the non existence of God. Wh...

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

All our TV channels are now digital, and we are continually told we need to upgrade to HD, Ultra HD, 4K etc. When you watch a normal c...

On my walks to work this week I was listening to Janelle Monae's "Dirty Computer", in my opinion the best album of  last...

Well it will be once I've written this. I've had a quiet weekend, though I expect my steps for February to be complete by the ...

Still on a Jethro Tull kick and decided to spin "Aqualung" on yesterday's walk to work. Aqualung is a fine album and ful...

One of the problems with a  great deal of "progressive" music is that often the pieces stretched out for sometimes mind numb...

I don't know if it's me getting older or what, but the frosted white cars and rooves and the biting burning cold this morning ...

Weatherwise this must be one of the greyest Christmases I have ever seen. Christmas has been fine but the weather has not been too col...

I've not done many posts this month and will probably not do many more. It might be because it's dark and cold, and I know at...

I have to say Settle is a lovely place to say, although not a place to drive round. The people are friendly and everything is in walki...

Three years back I wrote a history of music media in a post here , and at the weekend I nipped into Vinyl Guru and got talking with ...

You know what they say about buses, well it's not usually true of record shops, but the take off of Vinyl sales kicked off possib...

Well tomorrow is Christmas Eve, and it's just an excuse to post another vaguely seasonal song, though as I write this I'm not ...

I thought this was the 23rd of December but it's actually the 21st, yesterday. That means the days are going to start getting long...

Tonight I had the chance to do some catch up TV, but I didn't catch up on any TV at all. I've been meaning for ages to test th...