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.
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.
Merry Christmas and best wishes for a Happy New Year. I’ve always thought it slightly lazy to just rely on pre-printed messages inside cards, be they Christmas, birthday or otherwise so a few days ago I spent some time writing the above greeting inside all the Christmas cards that Kath and I were sending. Some … Continue reading Merry Christmas
Chesham town centre is lovely, there is always something going on to inform and/or entertain. Standing outside the Savers shop were two Chezzum Gurls and a young male engaged in a deep and meaningful conversation. Well, I say conversation, the lad was listening whilst the main female protagonist (Gurl 'A') gave him the benefit of … Continue reading Gurls, gurls, gurls…
A Point of Views, A Polish Odyssey, and Other Stories. 