Seven Days In

Since I started writing on Vocal , that has become my main creative focus. It has a slightly easier interface but posts need approval and h...

I am half way through "The Keep" by F Paul Wilson and thoroughly enjoying it, with it's second world war setting , links to...

The weather has curtailed my walking. It is cold . It has snowed and turned to slush and them frozen , then rained and then frozen again , ...

 I am writing this because Facebook wont let me properly share a recent YouTube album cover video that I post on three Chris Rea releases ...

Seems like a fair question. I once said that CDs were the McDonaldisation of music, MP3 and digital music even more so. All of a sudden alb...

This was the second song  that I wanted to include because it was one of things that my mum and dad played on their radiogram that I ac...

This is post 2019 in the year 2019.  This year my aim was to hit 2000 posts since I started blogging, I ended up doing that last month ...

I've decided to start sharing things on Facebook again (ie Instagram photos) but trying to generally keep it to positive items. I...

Went out at lunchtime chatted with a few people I only vaguely knew or didn't know , bought some vinyl, had a vegan curry and talke...

One of the annoying thing about the Facebook Ban is that I am now very reticent to share any pictures on Facebook. I've disconnecte...

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

I'm so impressed with my new record player from RPM (which you can see in actione here )  I began to think of using my networked ...

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...

Pocahontas you ask. Why? You ask. It's been in my head today, the Neil Young song, possibly a result of me reading Michael Moorcoc...

On the third floor of Commercial Union House on Northumberland Street among a lot of wall art is 586 Records. It's been there fou...

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...

How do you pronounce that? Is it Polish  - relating to Poland or polish - to buff something up? Is it wind - the atmospheric movement ...

While out for tea last night at Bar Loco I was talking with Juliet and Kirsty about stuff such as technology , and kirsty said that pe...

I usually write, when I feel inspired or happy. I really don't like complaining or saying that I'm down. This weekend was an o...

Today has been a weird day. I am absolutely shattered. I'm still hit with this lurgi but went into work, then came home mowed the la...