Seven Days In

Yesterday I noticed a red light on my mouse that I hadn't noticed before. It's wireless so I assumed it was just something I ha...

A lot of this is coming from Matt Haig's book "Notes on a Nervous Planet" and it is so good that I am about to order ...

Groucho Marx once remarked on the educational value of television. "Every time someone turns on the TV, I go into another room an...

This is my first March post and obviously the month name gives me lots of opportunity to play on words. Yesterday was Wold Book Day ...

Reading is good for you. It can educate you, inform you and take you places that don't exist, except in the imagination. I love Bill...

It was incredibly sad that we lost Prince this week , and while I do say the older we get the more this is bound to happen to us , he...

Good Advice Yesterday I went to my friend Paul Campbell's 50th Birthday Party. I was thinking if he had known me when I turned 50 he...

This is  just a short post although we have got into April and there is so much happening this month. I have picked up my bass guitar for...

Not quite yet Well the last few months have been amazing and the next few weeks are likely to be just as good. Have been catching u...

RSD 2015 Sorry I've not blooged for a while , no real reason apart from laziness , but it has been remarked upon , and I need need ...

Dead Man Talking I can't believe it's four years since my first World Book Night. Then I had 50 Copies of  Philip Pulman...

The last four days have see three days of music and seeing about fifteen bands which is a lot even for me, although this is not so much...

The Humans - Matt Haig My World Book Night was fairly low key. I did;t connect until this year that it falls on Shakespeare's birt...

A Magpie ... on the way to pick my books up for World Book Night. When I got there they were nowhere to be found. One for sorrow! ...

Great North Passion Well Good Friday is here, the weather is wonderful, and there is a lot of things on and to do. I was intending to to...

I've posted over seven hundred times in this blog and had over sixty four thousand page views. It started seven years ago (apparentl...

It's the end of another week, and it's been mostly work, sleep, eat and travel. I have World Book Night and National Record Sto...

Foggy Morning In Fenham The title is another quote from Vivian Stanshall / Sir Henry Rawlinson at the start of the new Tax year. In the...

The title is a quote from Sir Henry Rawlinson the creation of the wonderful Vivian Stanshall, and is particularly relevant to the sense o...

I have a date for collecting my books for World Book Night on the 23rd of April. The book I have chosen is Matt Haig's The Human...