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 ...

Saturday, December 31, 2011

If only God had written the Bible

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It's the end of the year, I'm at work and I need pepped up by something. As, generally speaking and subject to modern lyrical c...
Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Average weather

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Back home from a brief sojourn to Madeira only to find that average weather prevails and that soot mostly travels downwards when trapped ...
Monday, December 26, 2011

Boxing Day

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In a few moments Boxing Day and Christmas and that sort of thing will be over for another year. Here's a Venn Diagram or perhaps a Ze...
Friday, December 23, 2011

After all

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A wise child once said, "it's so close to Christmas that my feet won't stop jumping." That's almost exactly how I f...

Road to Valhalla

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Many readers will no doubt wonder over the photographic technical details that go with the vast array of images presented day in week out...
Thursday, December 22, 2011

Abandoned Portugal

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Interesting but abandoned two storey town house, naked and forlorn except for a flag and strange Christmas picture of baby Jesus cavortin...
Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Santa Maria

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I was looking out of the window today and what should sail past other than an exact replica of the Santa Maria. Apparently they are on a ...
Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Estrada Monumental

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For some reason abandoned and neglected buildings currently appeal to me, particularly those that lie derelict and unloved close to main ...
Monday, December 19, 2011

Cliff Bay Daily Photo

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The actual cliff that has given it's name to this wonderful location, a few hours before the daily sub tropical storm and the fligh...

This flight tonight

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Travel stereotypes, not often you get most of them in one day or on one flight. First of all it was the bouncy black dude, baseball cap...
Saturday, December 17, 2011

Wrong kind of heat

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Two strange things at Bewleys Hotel Manchester: 1. It isn't quite where it says it is on the map or in the micro chipped mind of the sat...
Friday, December 16, 2011

Christopher Hitchens RIP

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"I have one consistency, which is [being] against the totalitarian - on the left and on the right. The totalitarian, to me, is the enem...
Thursday, December 15, 2011

Abandoned Scotland

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What's not to like about a Facebook set of pages devoted to Scotland's abandoned buildings and industrial sites. The decay, devastat...
Tuesday, December 13, 2011

My mind's a blank

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Today the weather on the west coast truly lived up to it's unenviable reputation. Awful. Rain like really heavy rain and a wind straight...
Monday, December 12, 2011

Success

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Success is not burning the oven chips, getting through on amber light without being caught, sending a text with no bars, tuning a ukulele by...
Sunday, December 11, 2011

Forth Bridge v Ry Cooder

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Doing my usual daily trundle across the road bridge it was nice to see the rail bridge now clear of scaffolding and canvas and looking more ...
Saturday, December 10, 2011

Sainsburys Cludgie Crisis

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(Stock photo nicked from somewhere - I didn't actually visit any of these troubled cubicles) It's every young and pimply store manag...
Friday, December 09, 2011

Stormy Thursday Blues

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Today I got my watch cleaned, pressurised and fitted with a new battery, all for £9.95. The genial salesman/watch fitter assured me that it ...
Wednesday, December 07, 2011

Lurgy strikes

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Irrelevant but thought provoking picture and another book I started but failed to finish. It laughs at me and mocks me from the depths of a ...
Tuesday, December 06, 2011

A collapse of nature and other things

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"Another of Fife's post industrial installation pieces returns back to nature with dignity." Say's Daily Mail reader Mr ...
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