Sunday, June 29, 2014

Jack White's Telecaster

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As it's too early on a Sunday morning to go out and do the noisy power tool joinery repairs I need to do so  I'll pass the ...
Saturday, June 28, 2014

Change

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Change has to be obviously; I think it was Donovan who came up with that lyric a long time ago. Change was something I reflected on yeste...
Thursday, June 26, 2014

Henry Miller on getting old

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"If at eighty you’re not a cripple or an invalid, if you have your health, if you still enjoy a good walk, a good meal (with all the tr...
Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Fails to disappoint

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Today: Fife looking onto West Lothian, a long way from Fargo. I think it was the Daily Telegraph TV critic that said Fargo had "fai...
Monday, June 23, 2014

Painting garden furniture

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A day spent reasonably well, at work for the first nine hours or so as is the custom here in the western hemisphere, then home and after som...
Sunday, June 22, 2014

In praise of Shreddies

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Before scoffing more bad food and over processed stuff, nature reminds us of our mortality via orchid flowers. On rethinking the last ju...
Saturday, June 21, 2014

Home before the postcards

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Hard to feel sorry for the England team (or anybody who gets beat at a football match). Anyway good to see the Messiah chose to be with th...
Wednesday, June 18, 2014

Black and white cat

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Reflections in a marble worktop, born from primal volcanic fires and the magma from the centre of the earth a million years ago. Almost pe...
Monday, June 16, 2014

Queen's Baton

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OK, I'm done. I cannot take anymore. I nearly cracked in 2012 over the ballyhoo for the Olympic Torch but the Queen's Baton has n...
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Sunday, June 15, 2014

Pictorial fillers

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Cut a hole in a 2ft thick wall and...put in a window.  Sad dog in the floor. It's Father's Day today so I'm not do...
Saturday, June 14, 2014

Tough Mudder 14

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Just being a simple spectator at Tough Mudder is hard work. This year they seem to have imported a particularly fierce and sticky mud and...
Wednesday, June 11, 2014

Deja Vu

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Conclusive proof that humans (well this one) are stupid and learn nothing from either mistakes or experience or the searing pain of a fre...
Tuesday, June 10, 2014

Tomatoes and blood

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It's great that as part of a balanced diet tomatoes can help beat cancer, they are red and taste pretty good. Some people even say ...
Monday, June 09, 2014

Wee Heavy

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Get it over with: 100 days to go before the referendum and we have a fine excuse for more media inspired terminal fuckwittery. Some badl...
Sunday, June 08, 2014

Blissful existance

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  A good, fruitful, peaceful weekend comes close to ending with steak and salad. I'm not sure what was really achieved however, a mix ...
Saturday, June 07, 2014

Special fish

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I've got those Fleetwood Mac, Chicken Shack, Marilyn Monroe in a potato sack, John Mayall, can't fail, blues.  (A curse upon...
Friday, June 06, 2014

Ariel - my favourite font

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Maybe it's the weather, maybe it's driving up to the wrong side of the petrol pumps, maybe it's getting to the middle of the sup...
Thursday, June 05, 2014

The fragrant game of nil

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Unseen until today. Mathematics and absurdity – my two beliefs. When I gave up on low level doses of chocolate, drugs and religion I h...
Tuesday, June 03, 2014

Soup

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Listening to Arcade Fire (via a Kindle) is almost an interesting experience, but not quite. Never an early adopter of anything (except Knaus...
Monday, June 02, 2014

Out and about in Edinburgh

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Toxic building syndrome – or whatever you do don't take on a pub as a business venture. The prospect of running a live music venue is...