Having been reading some Miss Marple novels I rented on a whim the 1980s Joan Hickson-starring adaptation of one of them (The Body In The Library). I remember being quite an avid fan of this series when small – watching it again, while knowing […]

ok here is the vast and absurd practice structure i drew up for myself at xmas — it went into the shape of a pear almost immediately when i wrneched my left ring finger lifitng my dad’s wheelchair out of the car, which took two months to […]

I set fire to an arcade once.
Well, who could resist burning the leaping loons playing Dance Dance Revolution. I heard the thumping base of “You Can’t Touch This”, two synchronised robo-teens and all I could think of, whilst lightin[…]

Faceyourpockets. Pictures of your face and what’s in your pockets. Some Russians keep ice skates in theirs.[…]

Modern kids read Moomin and Asterix comics: “very interesting and very strange, in a good way”.[…]

So I had a little wander through the snazzy Brunswick Centre today. Mainly to go to the bank, but i thought I would sniff around. And I thought I would reacquaint myself with Skoob. Skoob being a rambling old second hand bookstore belov’d of ol[…]

my dad — more or less fully bedridden now and unable to work any music device more elaborate than a TV remote — watched pretty much all of the concert for diana; i tried to watch as much as i could with him, because time with him basicall[…]

The theme this week is DEATH. If you want to vote in the Pop Open, go here. And please don’t reveal what the tracks are yet (if you know)![…]

Hooray for the England Blind Football Team. They beat Greece 5-1 in what appears to be a bit of a walkover. And are happily anticipating the blind European champions where the prodigious talents of their striker may net them victory. The name of this[…]

It’s a simple pictogram of London, the circle with the straight-line river running through it.
It’s a tube tunnel with the long line as the tube, oblique.
It’s the deck of a Routemaster, low set with a wheel in the middle.
It an old school […]