Wednesday, February 28, 2018

Obligatory photos

›
Obligatory photos showing the predictable effects of some snow that happened to fall pretty much when the forecasters said it would. H...

The reality was a soulless shed

›
I used to imagine a world without petrol stations and phone boxes, that would be how the future would look. Whilst that's all pretty lik...
Tuesday, February 27, 2018

Listening for snow

›
Sit still.  Adopt the cross legged "Cowdenbeath" Lotus position wearing only a towel. (Close any open brackets). In o...
Monday, February 26, 2018

Time passes

›
So it's now 43 since Physical Graffiti came out. Now I am officially old (or a bit older). In other news here Page and Beck appearing...

Weather warning

›
It looks like once again the end of the world is nigh via a snowy and beastly apocalypse and now would be a good time to take an extended...
Saturday, February 24, 2018

Old Grey Wistful Test

›
Old, grey and gone, just like most of the participants and audience. So it's been 30 years since the last OGWT and about 40 years sin...

Pale Waves

›
There's nothing quite like a brief encounter with Alexa to remind me that I should try to listen to new music from at least this cent...
Friday, February 23, 2018

Time Out

›
Back to a week of guitar fiddling, some successful (Strat rewire as above), some less so. It's how I occupy spare time and irreducibl...
Thursday, February 22, 2018

The fitful impositions of trial and error

›
There's absolutely nothing wrong with trying to be a better person, no matter how sparse or undeveloped your talents may be. Potentia...
Wednesday, February 21, 2018

Posh as feck

›
This is very tasty, very posh, dark chocolate spread masquerading as hazelnut spread. It's only 26% hazelnut, the rest being chocolat...
Tuesday, February 20, 2018

Ghost Roses

›
If you think of this normally fun packed, spam attacked page as some kind of tiny on-line art gallery then the placement of odd pho...
Monday, February 19, 2018

Voices from NYC

›
Art: Currently listening to this, it's not actually an album cover, just a photo of a swoosh. The swoosh is inaudible to normal human...
Sunday, February 18, 2018

Family

›
Spent a few nice days just seeing almost everyone in the family. Dundee, Aberdeen, Glasgow, Fife and the Lothians.
Friday, February 16, 2018

Viking death clean

›
Typical clear out fodder. As an actual pseudo  Scandinavian with DNA generated and confirmed by the TV series "Vikings" I...
Thursday, February 15, 2018

Argus again

›
Took some time out today to do a rare thing (or a thing I probably only do when driving)...listen to a whole album all the way through. I...
Wednesday, February 14, 2018

Glasgow: Daily Snapshot

›
We spent some time yesterday wandering around Glasgow in the bitter cold (Brrr) and refused to leave the the well beaten track. I always ...
Tuesday, February 13, 2018

Life's too shortish

›
People say that's life's too short for distractions and diversions and stepping a little out of line. Most times I'd agree wi...
Monday, February 12, 2018

Not anytime soon

›
Today is eBay day, in this household anyway. Rumour has it that the bottom is falling out of the on-line, virtual and otherwise abstract ...
Sunday, February 11, 2018

Keeping it all empty

›
I was loitering without any intent in a doorway in Dundee when I came upon this worn out piece of signage. Apart from the long gone busin...
Friday, February 09, 2018

IMTB

›
border crossing by impossible songs I miss that boy / I missed the point?   Maybe it's only a long lost song, maybe nobody cares. But ...