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, 2026

Project #99

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  Only kidding: It's not really #99 but I can call it that if I like. $99 guitar. Body from France. It's an SG Junior Partscaster. I...
Sunday, August 30, 2026

The Long Defeat

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  If you think there are too many cats featured on this blog, then you're quite right. I do think that we can learn a lot from cats, but...
Saturday, August 29, 2026

Korean Cats & Thea Gilmore

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 Korean cats in artwork.  Magpies are often featured too. From Thea Gilmore's ECHO project; it has produced a tune. Click! It's here...
Thursday, August 27, 2026

Album Art

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  "When you boil it all down it's only album art", so said the critic who knows better. Pleasant packaging and mostly meaningl...
Wednesday, August 26, 2026

Drone Chute

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Incase anybody has any doubts, the future is made up of the daft things that are just about to happen. Amazon drones are dropping parcels he...
Tuesday, August 25, 2026

Moules Marinière Anyone?

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This article appeared in the Guardian. I read it at speed. What special, world beating, middle-classic (?) fuckwittery have we here? I can o...
Monday, August 24, 2026

Pear Cull

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  Quite a few pairs of pears. All small, hard and inedible. There are too many for a) the good of the tree b) the quality of the fruit and c...
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Sunday, August 23, 2026

One Direction

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  There are a few things wrong with the UK so I hear, and dear old Andy Burnham is trying hard to fix some of them. Fair enough. As a partia...
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Thursday, August 20, 2026

Day Two or Maybe Three

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Moving along slowly in the Phoebe Bridgers' universe of sounds and songs on a rainy day: Mostly done within a speeding vehicle of some s...
Wednesday, August 19, 2026

Twee Wee Booklet

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  Lost Weekend: It was released into the wild yesterday (not really sure about that). I'm amongst the first two million early adopters ....
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Tuesday, August 18, 2026

Holidays Are Over

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Yes. The holiday season is finally over so now I can get back to doing more of nothing in particular. That's not strictly true. Everyday...
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Sunday, August 16, 2026

Hair of the Wood

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  Another project rises from the battered bed of the old Black and Decker Workmate. Red wine coloured wood dye has been applied. Not drunk e...
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Friday, August 14, 2026

Another Day, Another Honeywagon

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The honey wagon has returned to suck out the porta loo. Probably for the last time. It's very noisey when pumping out the material but o...
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Thursday, August 13, 2026

The Deià Cemetery

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  Found this pic on line by chance; is there any other way? I don't look up gravesites normally. Just looking for Kevin Ayers' video...
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Wednesday, August 12, 2026

Eclipse Chasers

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They (?) call them the "eclipse chasers" but I don't know what they call themselves. They fly across countries to stand in a f...
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Tuesday, August 11, 2026

Nobody Ever Asks

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At a certain age it's true to say that you may have more time to spare. Or time to kill even. Not on real work that makes actual money, ...
Monday, August 10, 2026

Unavoidable/Hail Mary

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Andy Warhol is unavoidable. Still present. Despite being quite dead since 1987. Now he resides in some artistic firmament. Beyond our sphere...
Thursday, August 06, 2026

Edinburgh Daily Photo

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Not in central Edinburgh so much these days, I'm a little out of touch, but it seems like these new pink bikes (for hire) are everywhere...
Wednesday, August 05, 2026

One Contretemps After Another

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Not quite sure why I'm being targeted by AliExpress with special offers on dental teaching models(?). I did have a slight contretemps wi...
Tuesday, August 04, 2026

The Analogue Restistance

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Life and Transience.  "Life is all the things of mortals and all things pass us by;  but if not, then we ourselves will pass them by....
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