Seven Days In

I have a Canon SX620 camera and it enables me to take long distance pictures. The control says I can take up to 100x zoom although the ...

In a previous post ( here ) I referred to Michael Moorcock's "Breakfast In the Ruins"  which finished each chapter with a...

I'm back in Newcastle and back to work and sort of sad that I'm not still in Settle, but finances don't currently allow me ...

What is philosophy? I've never really thought apart from that fact that it's something that clever and intelligent people do so...

This could have been titled an Airdrieonian , A Native of Ayr, an Italian, and Australian and a Prestionian got in a taxi in Morpeth an...

This morning my alarm awoke me from a very vivid dream at a point where I was trying to get into a folk club for a gig but thought I ha...

When CD came along we were persuaded by the pristine sound and their supposed longevity, but this was what I called the MCDonaldisatio...

There might be a few Blue Mondays before the end of April. The first one I've chosen is the Fats Domino one. When I say they will ...

I've decided that April will be one post a day with obscure songs possibly related to April. The criteria may vary and even disapp...

Today I took a train from Newcastle to Settle via Carlisle. The thing about this journey is, if you don't do it every day, the sce...

Of course I'm not exactly a writer, not even close but several lines came to mind and this is a snippet Fat bloke on a mobility...

.. so Bill Haley says, but really we have a great Mean Eyed Cat in Newcastle, and I visited it today. I was not feeling physically too...

I know that is most people's working days (well it used to be) but that was my sleep time last night. I was feeling absolutely wre...

Yesterday was spent on Trans Pennine trains to an from Leeds and while they look nice, the seats are not the most comfortable, and tho...

Yesterday walking through the Eldon I guty was cluctching a load of shopping,, probably to much to immediately handle and almost malke...

That's what I did between 10AM and 8:30 PM today, between Newcastle and a hospital in Coventry that thinks is a great idea not to ...

That's when I thought I would be writing this but I actually slept all the way through (from 11 til 6). Technology has been slight...

It always makes me laugh the concept of a four letter word being offensive, The sort of people who use that term and the sort who are ...

It sort of makes me sad when I am in and outside work, and almost everyone is carrying a branded cup or foodbag, be it Costa, Starbuck...

A departed friend of mine once said we now die because something wears out, once we get that sorted we become immortal, that was decad...