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 ...

Tuesday, June 30, 2026

Israel has Nukes and Will Use Them

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For the sake of clearing my head I'm only just adding to the general noise: I'm not suffering from antisemtism. I don't hate Jew...
Monday, June 29, 2026

Scotland has Nukes but Won't Use Them.

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2026 and all that: Well for one thing the nukes are not Scottish, more UK-ish but also mostly USA-ish. It's mixed bag of defence chicane...
Sunday, June 28, 2026

Zippy

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Zippy the cat. He doesn't get quite the same exposure here as the other two, George and Bungle. He's very much an individual, hard t...
Thursday, June 25, 2026

Not in Boston Anymore

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Scotland are floundering at the World Cup and right now everybody knows this is close to nowhere. I'm not in Boston but my t-shirt came ...
Wednesday, June 24, 2026

A Small World of Haircuts

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A very short read about mostly very short haircuts. OK this is a strange thing to reflect on but ... I’m idly thinking of the whereabouts of...
Tuesday, June 23, 2026

Season III

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House of the Dragon; OK, Season 1 was, in my opinion brilliant and highly watchable. Season 2 not so good. Treading water at times, decent a...
Monday, June 22, 2026

Freakfast

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Cat portraits that are set up in low trees are destined to be the next big thing this summer, just as a challenge to novice photographers ev...

Longest Day

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On the longest day, Bungle the cat sat in a trug for a good chunk of the morning. Meanwhile I fixed up our daft little water feature with an...
Friday, June 19, 2026

Taytos etc.

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In the week in which I fired my personal dentist because I needed to take back control, along came ... crisps: Not a huge fan to be honest b...
Thursday, June 18, 2026

Flow States

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Flow is when the work takes you and forgets to give you back. You begin with a task. The task is hard enough to matter and clear enough to ...
Wednesday, June 17, 2026

Chester and Vernon

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 Click above for a short, short story.
Tuesday, June 16, 2026

South Queensferry Daily Panorama

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Flaming June fails to ignite the SQ skies. It's dull. Bordering on chilly. People are hanging in rather than hanging out. The High Stree...
Monday, June 15, 2026

Shetland Daily Photo

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No explanation required though one would be welcome: I'm not actually in Shetland at the moment but I believe it's where you might f...
Saturday, June 13, 2026

DataCentreBlues

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  They’re going to build their data centres no matter what we do or say. We don’t really understand what’s going on. Big sheds with a myster...
Friday, June 12, 2026

Daily Pigeon

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  Everyone say hello to Peter Pigeon. He's here today, but he may be gone tomorrow. You can never tell with pigeons. These birds are not...
Thursday, June 11, 2026

Affogato

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  Despite all that they did do, this is one thing you can't say the Romans bestowed upon us. Coffee is clearly a very post Columbus trea...
Wednesday, June 10, 2026

Simultaneous Win Architecture

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Here we go again. Another cheap shot at stating the obvious - or is it? There's nothing new under the sun. We're on repeat far more ...
Tuesday, June 09, 2026

AI Beware

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AI bot traffic is going crazy. There's now more bot traffic than human traffic on the web. Most of these crawlers are harvesting data. H...
Monday, June 08, 2026

Dog Walks

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Back home from a weekend in the north. Most of it spent caring for some of the family dogs. I think that I logged up eleven separate dog wal...
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Thursday, June 04, 2026

Remembrance of Things Past

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In Search of Lost Time. There's nothing new about a bit of nostalgia. It's always been there. So, this (Reading Rock Festival) was m...
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