You don’t need me to remind you that now we are in December, we are well and truly into that nightmare of nightmares, the Christmas Shopping Season when taste, decency and style all disappear until well into January. Something bad…
At the end of December, I will have been writing these daily blogs for three years without interruption and, as an unapologetic and obsessive geek, I couldn’t resist looking at some of my vital statistics. After-all, it would show an unforgivable lack of curiosity…
Foxes! album cover Adam Bell Adam Bell, one of my sons, is a songwriter, guitarist and can generally be described as an indie rock musician, He has, as I have mentioned here before, a band called Foxes! with three other…
Star quality. This is the great Hollywood star Cary Grant – I don’t know the dog’s name but I do know that this is a truly wonderful photograph – good enough for me to say nothing more.
Ken Russell (1927-2011) When certain great people die, it is tempting for other people to claim that the deceased changed their lives – I resist these claims but in the case of that most charismatic, under-estimated, over-publicised, cruelly-under-funded and brutally…
Here are two amazing photographs of cloud formations worth putting up just because they are amazing photographs of cloud formations. Both sides as far as the mood goes. They made me think of a song by Joni Mitchell – an…
Arturo Toscanini (1867-1957) On my self-imposed journey through the history of classical music where I have been listening to music chronologically from the year 1100 taking in most of the notable composers through the ages and reaching over the last…
Merry Christmas everyone! Oh, sorry, it’s still only November – sorry about this premature piece of Christmas cheer. Maybe this is better: Here is a charming photograph I think. It is part of a series showing the slow motion effects…
This is an interesting situation involving the very popular but adult-rated video game Skyrim. The cute little six-year old in the video clip below has an exciting adventure that involves her “swording” bad guys and seeing, maybe, a bit too…
My friends the indie band Foxes! have been the subject of a blog or two on here in the past and I am unrepentant about singing their praises especially as one of them, Adam, happens to be my close relative…