A further reflection on the 10,000 photos that I can access any time In an earlier piece (“10,000 Photos: An Introduction) I began reflecting on the 10,000 photos that I can access any time. They are either personal to me or were sent my way, as prints or digitally. I could have let that earlier… Continue reading 10,000 Photos: thousands of duplicates
Back in 2017 I wrote about Tony Blackburn and his return to early morning radio on BBC Radio 2. All these years later he continues to host “Sounds of the 60s” on Saturday morning (6am to 8am). Occasionally I am up during the live broadcast. Usually I hear the show later on the web. I… Continue reading Tony and Dermot, a selection of recent jokes
An initial reflection on the 10,000 photos that I can access any time How many photos can you access easily? I’m talking here about photos that are personal to you in some way, or sent for you to see, not photos taken by complete strangers with no connection to you. My estimate, for all the… Continue reading 10,000 Photos: An Introduction
I have posted many items on this Blog about the fortunes of Leeds United, the team that I have followed since childhood. There was usually at least one post per month in the club’s last two seasons in the Championship, before being promoted to “The Promised Land” of Premier League football. I have posted less… Continue reading When your fate is in your own hands
I return to the subject of crosswords and find that everything that I wrote in this piece, back in 2020, still applies. As it says, “I learnt how to do cryptic crosswords at my father’s knee, as it were”, but rarely look at them these days. My father continued to get a daily paper until… Continue reading My father’s way of doing crosswords
A short piece about a short phrase: “my bad”. I don’t hate it, and I don’t use it. It came up in conversation recently when 14 of us had gathered for a meal on my wife’s birthday. One of the other mums said that she had only just come across the phrase and thought it… Continue reading “My Bad”
Another reflection on computer hardware and software stretching back 35 years. Most of it is still in my possession. This follows on from My Computer Museum, Part 1: The Amstrad PC1640. The Amstrad PC1640 that I bought in 1988, along with loan PCs from various places where I worked, was good enough for my needs… Continue reading My Computer Museum, Part 2: a 486
There are dozens of posts on this Blog that mention the music quiz Pop Master. Until March 2023 it was on Ken Bruce’s BBC Radio 2 show at 10.30am every weekday morning. Ken moved to Greatest Hits Radio last month, and Pop Master went with him. My most recent piece with “Pop Master” in the… Continue reading Pop Master: 20 more minutes in my day
The school year here in the UK runs from 1 September to 31 August. If you have a child born on the first of these dates they will be the oldest in their class. Any child born on the last of these dates will be the youngest in their class. There might still be some… Continue reading Daily reminders of being 15, 16, 17, 18
There have been 207 “Word of the week” pieces on this Blog so far. From 1 February 2016, when I decided to post them exclusively on Mondays, there was an unbroken run of 24 weeks each featuring a word that was either in the news or relevant to what I was doing or reading at… Continue reading Word of the week: allotment
The Compartments 