Seven Days In

I know we're into Autumn because it's very dark when I wake, which does make more likely that I want to actually stay warm in b...

Yesterday I decided I had a motherlode for #Oktoberfest in the songs of Tom Waits , which is obviously true enough, but I don't thi...

I'm still waiting for my roof to be sorted, and need to have a shower before work, but after last week's "Tuesday Aftern...

Well it has been quiet and relaxing. Have exchanged messages and phone calls with friends ad family and done not very much at all, bu...

As a kid Christmas Day started for us at 1 minute past midnight on Christmas Eve, by that time Santa had left some small presents at t...

It's Christmas Eve and over the past month we've been subjected to some particularly atrocious "festive music" . Last ...

And I'm going to get the Pogues and Kirsty MacColl out of the the way for today's seasonal song. Just because things are popul...