impossible songs

These are just fleeting thoughts from the heartland of the UK's colonial dustbin somewhere beyond the wall of sleep. Odd bits of music and so-called worldly wisdom may creep in from time to time. Don't expect too much and you won't feel let down. As ever AI and old age are to blame. I'll just leave it there ...

Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Stuff of the year

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2008 then: My old mum died at the age of 85 after a short illness. My fourth grandchild, the lovely Imogen was born. The family gre...
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Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Walgreens medicines

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Today I am doing my best to overcome the head cold that has been dogging me for a week. The small selection of American sourced Walgreen rem...
Monday, December 29, 2008

Safe pair of hands

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We're in that limbo period between the big seasonal days, stupid sales are on, between the world of work and real life and feasts and le...
Friday, December 26, 2008

Merry Christmas (late)

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Who can be bothered blogging about what they did over Christmas time? Not me - but happy Christmas.
Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Turkey

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Now it's downhill all the way to Christmas Day and I'm home and ready to start preparations by reading about turkey cooking times, d...
Monday, December 22, 2008

Iconic image survives and thrives

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Nice to see a little reminder of past glories, bonfires and parties whilst trawling around and across the wicked web. This locally produced ...
Sunday, December 21, 2008

Older people sleeping

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Over soup and sandwiches today that eternal, compelling question once again arose, "Why is it difficult for old(er) to stay over at you...
Friday, December 19, 2008

Dude! Where's my phone?

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I waited in all afternoon for the delivery man who was due to bring me a new and sexy Sony Eric Idle phone. Did he show up? Did he bizzzz!!!...
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Thursday, December 18, 2008

Vox Wyman bass

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Blue tin of biscuits. Vox bass, similar but not the same . A visit from Fingers Farrell prompted the opening of the blue biscuit tin, the on...
Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Hallelujah 2

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Rest in peace if you can, Facebook fans want you alive again and No1 to prove a point that seems important, suddenly. Popular culture and a ...
Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Hallelujah

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After two nights of wrapping Christmas presents I was starting to get ragged around the edges, in the mind, with the sticky tape and to make...
Monday, December 15, 2008

Kryptonite and stars and cowboy boots

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The celebrations are well underway, our pet starfish has been candy appled (as in apple the fruit) and metal flaked into Christmas and our b...
Friday, December 12, 2008

Non domestic non goddess

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I like cooking if it's leading some where, in other words not just for me. I also like the squirrelesque tactic of preparing food and ho...
Thursday, December 11, 2008

Not hitting bottles

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The world is clear, cold, frosty and diamond white. I am seeing clearly through the mist and star light thanks to an uncompromising diet of ...
Wednesday, December 10, 2008

This is not how I am

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Listening to Ross Harper from the Scottish Green Party would make anyone want to run out and buy a diesel helicopter (see Pigs from Uranus -...
Tuesday, December 09, 2008

Wooly jumper at the end of the world

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Came home today to find that the cold was still as cold. After a long journey from the Midlands of England's Midlands I resorted to putt...
Sunday, December 07, 2008

The islands at the end of the world

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It's always tricky to try to name your all time favourite place, there's always a paragraph in the Sunday papers where people talk ...
Friday, December 05, 2008

Strange sweets from the edge of the world

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Not easy to cover these guys adequately, even on a good day . Some Friday afternoons have a wild and unscripted feel to them: two hours to k...
Thursday, December 04, 2008

The many things that cats don't understand.

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An altogether better speaker. Civilised cats (tigers in fact) who have learned to wave at windows . I have given up on my mission to civilis...
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Wednesday, December 03, 2008

Starlings over Rome

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Today I've managed to avoid going to Rome and getting mixed up with the five million starlings that have descended upon the Eternal City...
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