Blog
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Cheese galore! For me, there is nothing quite like a market deli shop…
Food shopping is not a chore when I am salivating over local cheeses, hams, pies and other goodies from the market deli.
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From Caravan to AC/DC in one day
12 May 76: listening to Caravan in the morning and down to the Marquee in the evening for a completely unknown band called AC/DC…
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Photography: Lightroom or Photos?
I must make a choice between Lightroom and Photos before I go too far down the road of cataloguing and ‘developing’ over 9,000 photographs. The choice is not easy but I cannot possibly work on such a large collection twice, so a choice must be made.
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There is nothing quite like seeing your favourite band live on stage; living in London – and within walking distance of venues like the Brixton Academy – made it easy. Looking back, 1992 seems to have been a particularly good year…
For some reason I seem to have saved quite a few concert tickets over the years, and sifting through them the year 1992 stands out as a particularly good vintage – for me at least.
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National Health @ LSE – prog rock, jazz fusion & the Canterbury Scene
I sometimes forget that jazz fusion was big in the 70’s, with Brand X (Phil Collin’s band) being my favourite at the time (and now!)
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Great Music new & old: Weather Station & Gentle Giant
Ignorance by Weather Station released February 2021 and Octopus by Gentle Giant released in December 1972. Two records for people who really like music.
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Steel Pulse, Graham Parker, The Damned… & the Crazy World of Arthur Brown – live in 1977
Second year at Uni and I was engrossed in Ents (entertainments), beer, music and gigs. No wonder I only scraped through exams!
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A light dusting of snow brought back memories of the Big Freeze of 1963 – and how my fear of ice got started.
I love to see snow, but it is quite rare in this part of the world. We had ‘snow’ this morning but nothing compared to the big freeze of 1963, which is where my fear of ice came from…
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Storm Bella brings down part of the fence between me and my neighbour. It can stay like that for a while…
My personal diary, Sunday, 27th December 2020. Devon. Bella has a go at blowing my fence down, and doesn’t entirely succeed.
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Andover ZED – Zero Energy Development
It is possible to have a heating bill of £100 a year – or less. All we need to do is design well and, perhaps more importantly, build well. Are we capable of that in the UK?
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Teignmouth QM2
The Queen Mary 2 has been anchored off Teignmouth for a few days now, along with a number of other cruise ships.
Colin Anderson 