Best Laid Plans, and all that. The current default setting here at the mo is “try to do something, then knock something else together as quickly as possible because Plan A has just gone a bit wonky”. The pic to the left of this scribbling is the majestic, erm, majesty of the planet Saturn which [...]
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Somehow, I have managed to amass 302 spam messages overnight. Looking forward to reading them all, but sadly I can’t promise to reply to all of them. I’m a busy man. Of course I say busy, I’m looking forward to spending a night outside with a telescope and a cheeky bottle of red while staring at [...]
It’s probably about time for me to admit that I haven’ the faintest idea what I’m doing with this blog. After over three years, one would have thought that I would have settled into some sort of happy little groove, but I haven’t really. If anything, this is all going backwards – and much I [...]
This is taking a while to type as my right arm, as is its wont, is dangling somewhat uselessly and painfully to the side of me. That I am having to take extra care and consideration about what I type means that not only is this taking a lot longer to do than usual, there’ll [...]
There’s just something gloriously mad about Blade Runner, as it’s a film that is almost impossible to explain to anyone who has never seen it, especially if they start asking awkward questions like “so, why is he called a Blade Runner then?” It’s one of those films that has very slowly and carefully created a [...]
Because, quite frankly, my previous post was basically me spending the thick end of 800 words about hanging about outside a shop, when the best bit was spent hanging about briefly (there was a queue behind me!) inside one as well. Yes, I bought some records. It would have been frankly rude not to have [...]
There’s very little that will get me out of bed at 6 on a Saturday morning. A fire perhaps, or possibly someone at the door with a million pounds. Or, as in this case, the opportunity to stand some distance away from a record store with a few hundred like-minded individuals on a slightly frosty [...]
What a strange week this has been. If it wasn’t enough to be told by all and sundry that apparently most of the socio-economic history of the 1980s (including pretty much all the bits I remember growing up, mostly spent in abject terror of impending nuclear war while the TV was full of images of [...]
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