A nice surprise this week – an email from a friend in Germany, who found the blog in passing, and tracked me down to my work email address. What I like about this is that we met back in 1993, and despite not meeting up much since, emails and letters, off and on, have helped …
Category archives: Reading
Here, there and everywhere
It’s good to know that, while some of us missed Beatlemania the first time round, there’s still opportunities to catch up – or get caught up – one way or another. Read my way through a fairly useful guide to all the albums and singles included in the weekend paper – I now have more of …
Stew vs. mash
The nights are drawing in, and so on. Myself, I think the days are drawing in, and the nights are sneaking up behind and getting in on the act. However you view it, I thought it was starting to get sufficiently seasonal to write this post. Stew vs. mash is not my evening meal quandry …
Useful information
So, who got the latest Guiness Book of Records? More to the point, who’s prepared to own up to it? For years, it seemed to be standard issue that someone, somewhere, would be understanding of small boys’ needs for Facts, and make sure that the latest collection of Useful Information was dispatched. Henceforth, and, indeed, …
Cheese, Gromit
You know it’s Christmas when the fridge is full of cheese (a slight exaggeration, but happily, only slightly) and Aardman has decided to issue a new Wallace and Gromit. My cup, mulled or otherwise, runneth over. We’ve got rather used to Wallace and Gromit now, but what the animators achieve, painstakingly, lovingly, is indeed a present of …