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 ...

Monday, August 31, 2020

When we did nothing

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It should have been something more than it turned out to be. That's the problem with reflection if there's not enough to reflect upo...
Sunday, August 30, 2020

La Suite Apocalyptique

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  The Umbrella Academy is strange, surreal, almost compulsive watch. A TV show that engages (me) with each new episode but then you somehow ...
Saturday, August 29, 2020

New Radiators

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Actual picture but not the actual picture. Seventeen years of gunk, corrosion, chemicals, road film, Scottish weather, high operating temper...
Friday, August 28, 2020

Squirrelproof Bins

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  Out for a healthy walk: Sometimes that irrational fear just creeps up on you. Out there, beyond the boundary of senses, no easy navigatio...
Thursday, August 27, 2020

Not one of those people

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If I ever were asked to sum up the UK's current state I'd probably use an illustration something like this one. That only makes me a...
Wednesday, August 26, 2020

The Glow of a German Cat

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  Meanwhile over in Germany, cats are going for a decidedly stylish but also sinister look these days. That view is of course from a human p...
Tuesday, August 25, 2020

TSINGTAO

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I recently collected a substantial Chinese carry out from our local place and it came in this rather nice box, one which I quite like. Tsing...
Monday, August 24, 2020

Vicarious Coffee and Cake

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Custard tart and milky coffee as served up in Koln street cafe yesterday at lunchtime. Meanwhile back here we had lentil soup and oatcakes a...
Sunday, August 23, 2020

Distorted Woodland Gods

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So as not to be confused with dragons or other fierce creatures the characters balance a welcoming cherry berry cupcake by creating a pyrami...
Saturday, August 22, 2020

In Dreams

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It's found in the second aisle in Aldi, around the corner from the cheese, ready meals and cold meats. It's on your left, down a bit...
Friday, August 21, 2020

Le Grand Bleu

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Sailing on out into the great and somewhat misty blue yonder of the North Sea, the £150m (or thereabouts) super yacht Grand Bleu leaves her ...

Confessions of a Beachcomber

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  I'm old enough to recall "the world according to beachcomber" (without capitalization). It was a silly, funny, odd column th...
Thursday, August 20, 2020

The pubs are open

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A real pub in an imaginary place.   The pubs are safe spaces say the safe space experts but if you get ill it's your own fault. The shop...
Wednesday, August 19, 2020

Shoes on a wire

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  A daily photo type of post and a sad state of affairs, not expressed in bold text either for some reason despite sitting to the left of a...
Tuesday, August 18, 2020

Content on a rainy day

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An idea from above.   This could be about being content on a rainy day, at ease and at peace despite the weather being a bit of a dampener. ...
Monday, August 17, 2020

Cyphers in the Stones

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  Little known facts from the darkness of the past: A recent discovery has been made at the low water point near the harbour of a Scottish ...
Sunday, August 16, 2020

Some smart arse

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Some smart arse (well that's pretty unfair and judgmental right away and untrue no doubt) drew an arty picture of something called ...
Saturday, August 15, 2020

Textures from the concrete swamp

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  A working title: Textures of building materials viewed as if seen through the downward facing camera of a tiny Martian lander that's ...
Friday, August 14, 2020

A man needs a maid

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I can't quite figure out what a 24 year old Neil Young would have to say that would connect with my 17 year old self but a connection of...
Thursday, August 13, 2020

Unprecedented Times

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  Sometimes there's no point in trying to write anything remotely original when there are plenty of other people, clearly cleverer than ...
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