Some more Handmade
It was a few weeks ago now but it’s still firm in the memory. Handmade was such a fantastic event – it was wonderful to see so many people walking around my hometown going to see the acts and arts at...
View Articleotherwise engaged
Apologies for not being around much lately but I’ve been otherwise engaged. I’ve been playing with my family. Playing the guitar to myself. Listening to things. I went to the Cotswolds. I’ve been...
View ArticleAll I know is a door into the dark
> I found out a week after he died, a brief foray onto Facebook where someone had posted about his last words to his wife. I felt sad and tried to remember as many of his words as I could. The...
View ArticleI got me some of them iOS 7 blues
Have you done it yet? Do you like it? Is it amazing? I’m so late to the party – I haven’t done it, not sure I will do it either but want to throw in some thoughts about Apple’s iOS7 update and my...
View ArticleIt wasn’t where I had intended to go
It wasn’t where I had intended to go. My map reading skills are weak. I timed myself from the station to the crossroads – 12 minutes. That gave me an hour to get up the hill and down with enough time...
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Shopping yesterday, my progress through JD Sports was halted as three young girls (13,14 maybe) placed themselves in front of a large mirror for a group selfie. I watched, keenly, as each one...
View ArticleBikes make things better.
I’m aware that digging in to the link below could (and should) take up a fair chunk of your time. But if you’re interested in how we can make our everyday lives happier & healthier, our environment...
View Articlebeing there
First thing you notice as you leave the road and cross the bridge onto the path is the sound of the beck, the river. The rush, whoosh and roar is everywhere beneath the tree lined track as we begin our...
View ArticleI’ve nothing much to offer
The night I found out, I went and sat on the bed and fumbled through some songs to myself – stuff off of ‘Ziggy’ and ‘Hunky Dory’. I’m acutely aware of the influence he had, not just directly upon me...
View ArticleI’ve nothing much to offer
The night I found out, I went and sat on the bed and fumbled through some songs to myself – stuff off of ‘Ziggy’ and ‘Hunky Dory’. I’m acutely aware of the influence he had, not just directly upon me...
View ArticleI’m not here. I’m here.
I’m not here, I’m here. Bike slowly rolling down the hill Watching the yellow changing, golden changing fields and it’s bales and it’s bright blue cloud dotted backdrop and it’s stick figures. I’m...
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Nature is lovely. But nature is also brutal and harsh. And to be out in it is wonderful and frightening. It is to feel your significance and your insignificance at once and to wonder at it all. We...
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Have never really got on with this recorder – the gain seems to have a mind of its own and plops on as much hiss as it sees fit. But it has other idiodsyncracies and erratic tendencies that keep...
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