If you’re reading this, you’ll realise that my Christmas letter has gone digital this year. It’s still the same 2,000 words of self-referential drivel, but now it’s illustrated with photographs and most importantly, it’s saved me a lot of printing. As I write, our house could be described as being in a state of accidental […]
I’d booked to see a number of artists between September and November this year, the first one being on the 4th September when I had tickets to see Tommy Arch, the former drummer with Holy Moly and the Crackers. I’ve seen him once before when he was acting as support, but this was his first […]
Sunday 12th October 2025 We drove Tilly to the cattery at 10am this morning before heading down the M6 to Rutland Water where we’d booked a couple of nights in a posh hotel courtesy of Secret Escapes. The weather forecast was for the early morning mist to clear, but it didn’t, and we so arrived […]
Sunday 6th July 2025 I booked this short break in Scotland in early February after watching a TV programme which showcased several gardens in Scotland. Drummond Castle garden was one which really impressed Gee and I and so we arranged a trip specifically to visit it. I booked what I thought were very nice (expensive!) […]
Wednesday 26th March Ruth Lyon is the lead singer of Holy Moly & the Crackers, a band we’ve been following since 2017, and a couple of years ago she began performing as a solo artist. Tonight she’s playing in Manchester at a venue I’d never heard of along with a bassist (who also plays drums […]
Wednesday 19th March 2025 In November 2024 I booked tickets to see Katherine Priddy in Leeds after seeing several reports of her excellent live shows and terrific songs, but before I’d actually listened to many of the songs. She was playing at the City Varieties Music Hall which once hosted The Good Old Days on […]
By September 2020, the country was gradually being released from its lockdown restrictions, and Geraldine had started performing wedding ceremonies once more. She was being given many of them just then since several of the other celebrants were classed as vulnerable and didn’t yet feel comfortable venturing out into the community. There was still a […]
When I began my Open University course in 1985, one of the set books for the course was called “Micro-chips with everything” which was a series of essays derived from five seminars held in July 1982. In the UK, the government declared 1982 to be Information Technology Year and the seminars set out to ask […]
September 2019 started with us both being away on separate holidays since Geraldine was in Kent until the 8th, and I set off to go to Essex with Jim on the 4th. I had been invited to take part in a cycle trip to ride down the length of the river Rhine. Jim and his […]
Like everyone else my age, I don’t feel old. But when I think back to life when I was in my 20s I realise that the world is a very different place. I bought a book in 1983 called ‘The Timetable of Technology’ and it listed all the major technological innovations of the 20th century. […]