David Bowie returns
So David Bowie is 66 today, and has released a video featuring a track - Where are we Now? - from his upcoming album, the first collection of music from him for a long, long time. There is a link to...
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The North beckons
I'm beginning to think wistfully of getting away this summer up north, using the caravan of course. I last holidayed in the north (using a farm near York as my base, with forays into Cumbria and...
View ArticleLesson learned
The recent encounter with people who took exception to some of my December posts has had a more salutory effect than they would have expected. It was an important anniversary for me to have been LM...
View ArticlePed power and down on the mat
A few posts back I mentioned that better fitness was one of my goals in 2013 - exactly the same as most other health-conscious people in the overweight Western world! And I briefly described a personal...
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Clothes for a sunny world
A brochure for a firm called Fifty Plus dropped out of this week's Radio Times. Here it is:It's a taster for the proper catalogue, something to catch your attention and hook you in. I can imagine...
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The Good Samaritan
The photo above is of appeals from three different UK charities for clothes that they can sell to raise cash for their work. They were all popped through my front door over the last few days. In a...
View ArticleThis is what I would vote for
I wasn't going to comment.I'd been rebuked recently by the 'other side' and had learned that it was better to keep a low profile and stay out of political matters. It was a lesson I now intended to...
View ArticleSlave to convention
Recently I've changed the wording in my Blog Profile. The new Profile supersedes the one that I used from early 2011, and right through 2012.The old one was distinctly celebratory. Nothing wrong with...
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The delights of Middlesbrough
It won't just be wild romantic moors, deep-cut dales with rivers in spate, and lonely windswept beaches frequented only by seals, when I go up north! There's an important industrial heritage to...
View ArticleFree speech with responsibility
Ten days ago I took down nine posts published on this blog from 13 December to 3 January. I did it because they had drawn unexpected commentary from various sources, in particular natal women who found...
View ArticleFree speech with responsibility 2
I was going to write a reply to Innis Anity's comment on my previous post, but it went over the 4,096-word limit, and so she gets a full post in response. I think her comment merits this anyway,...
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Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!
Down here in rural Sussex we do actually get proper snow, in contrast to folk who live in Brighton, who normally just get a sprinkling that soon melts. You have to understand that although Brighton is...
View ArticleFrank confessions
Lance Armstrong is now the latest to have made a confession in a stage-managed performance on TV. I don't follow professional cycling, so I can't say anything sensible about what he seems to be...
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The Real Life
Below is a photograph taken by Takeji Iwamiya in the 1970s. (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takeji_Iwamiya) I imagine it was taken somewhere on the Pacific seaboard of the United States, and not in...
View ArticleSocial identity defined by one's Internet presence
Now that's interesting, although it comes as no surprise. The Government Chief Scientific Adviser, Professor Sir John Beddington (see...
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The need to go back
So: 2013 lies ahead, and my holiday plans are beginning to firm up. I now think my Northern and Anglian Tour in June - which will definitely include south-east Scotland, including Edinburgh - must have...
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Comedy tonight at the Brighton Komedia
Brighton has a lot of places you can go to to be entertained, and this is one. I'm off there tonight to have my funny bone tickled by no less than ten comedians in the space of three hours or so. There...
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I didn't win the rope sculpture!
Last night's Komedia show was in aid of charity, and to celebrate the work of the North Laine Community Association.Let me digress a little. If you've never been to Brighton, you must at least know...
View ArticleThe Breaking of the Fellowship
Those who go through a process like transition form strange alliances.We were all different before; the process forces us to come together, and we form cross-cultural friendships as a group, our...
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Avebury and other stones
(I took this post down yesterday after I discovered a technical problem. Hopefully it's now sorted!)Wiltshire is such a spanking good place for standing stones thousands of years old. It not only has...
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