That thing when you see a picture, an image and you are transported back, usually to a better yet sadly long-gone time… There is a WordPress blog I follow (ST33) which is devoted to the designs used on record covers, album art if you will. A recent post which was simply titled "Basic", showed the … Continue reading Musical time travel.
I always baulk at writing a piece to which I can bring very little in the way of "original" content as I tend to think of it as plagiarism of the first order. The piece below is compiled from different sources, and I have glossed over some points of the story and had to infer … Continue reading Augustus Smith of Berkhamsted.
If there is one thing that my various visits to Poland have taught me, it is that for many, many years I had been starting the day with a lacklustre breakfast. As a child and for as long as I can remember, cereal, in one of its various guises was what breakfast was. Shredded Wheat, … Continue reading Śniadanie, a dlaczego nie?
Many years ago, there used to be a pheasantry in Berkhamsted, although we always referred to it/them in the plural as The Pheasantries. Anyway, Dwight's Pheasantries, reckoned to be the largest in the UK, occupied a tract of land between Ivy House Lane and Bullbeggars Lane on the northeast side of the valley in which … Continue reading Quite a pheasant walk.
Or, Twenty-odd years in the making. In the top drawer of my bedside cabinet, I keep a pen and some paper upon which to note down band names and song titles that come on the wireless in the evening or early morning, and which I know, if I like them, that I shan't remember them … Continue reading Top drawer stuff…
Augustus Smith of Scilly, By Piper’s Hole he swore… Every now and again one looks back at the things that one did when one was younger and somehow more immortal than one is now and one thinks to oneself, "Shit, that could have gone horribly wrong." Hmmm… There's a lot of "ones" in that. Hang … Continue reading Scilly sods!
Some songs or pieces of music can transport me mentally (and I'm sure I'm not alone in this) to a fairly specific time and place and the other day one of those songs came on the wireless. More Than A Feeling by the American rock band Boston. The song which is from their debut Album … Continue reading Boston, chalk, other stuff, and I resign!
Time. A place. A time and a space. Music that's more than a feeling… I've not written much of late, the muses deserted me, well, almost. I kept thinking of things, I even wrote some prompts down but I did nothing about them. Ah well… Coming soon, Boston and chalk, a time and a space, … Continue reading Coming soon…
Since I left my employment with Cobham plc, working for Cobham Wireless, in 2019 by accepting a redundancy payment, I haven't really been keeping abreast of what was and is happening to Cobham. I worked for Aerial Facilities before it was amalgamated with Avitec of Sweden to form Axell Wireless and I worked for Axell … Continue reading Easy Cobham, Easy Go.
Let me just say here, now, and up front that I like the work of Banksy. If we must have graffiti then at least let them be thoughtful and dare I say intelligent graffiti and not the brainless, repetitive "tagging" that seems to blight so many walls. But, and you knew there was going to … Continue reading Criminel? C’est dommage.
A Point of Views, A Polish Odyssey, and Other Stories. 