I nearly forgot to clap for the NHS last night, so far gone was I in my digitally generated new world of Animal Crossing. I was midway through catching a porker of a fish (turned out to be the gigantic oarfish) when I heard the … Continue reading Covid-19 Diaries – May 1st

Blog. To begin with, here is my vocal tribute to Captain Tom Moore. This is so I never forget that once there was a 99-year-old bloke (soon to be 100) living quietly in Bedfordshire, who achieved global fame, via tottering around a bit in his … Continue reading Covid-19 Diaries – April 27th

The Nook Cranny shop has finally landed on my Animal Crossing island. Like a Judas, the price I paid for building the shop was thirty pieces each of wood, hardwood, softwood and iron nuggets. The various woods were easy. The iron nuggets flummoxed me, since … Continue reading Covid-19 Diaries – April 20th

Blog.  We’ve been larking about making a quarantine video for the sister. A big part of me felt b-a-d that here was I, all singing and all dancing (along with the husband and sons nos 2 and 3) to the tune of Sweet Caroline (which … Continue reading Covid-19 Diaries – April 14th

Blog, I now know why my GP was so dismissive of The Virus. Writing in The Guardian (seems to be my go-to paper these days, probably because it’s one of the few that you can read for free) a GP catalogued his experience with Covid-19, … Continue reading Covid-19 Diaries – April 5th

Dearest Blog So, Dr Campbell lately has a catchy phrase he’s employing for use during these times of The Virus.  That phrase is: Two meters distance determines our existence. Pithy wouldn’t you say. Just the sort of mantra you can rhythmically repeat to yourself as … Continue reading Covid-19 Diaries – April 3rd

Dearest Blog. Never have the newshounds had it so good.  Never have they wagged their tails with such glee, whilst sniffing out every single coronavirus tidbit, no matter how tenuous the link. Today one of the BBC’s old journo dogs, holed up in isolation at … Continue reading Covid-19 Diaries – March 31st

How wonderful Billie is. How breathy and directly emotional is her recorded voice, but also she's actually better live.  Billie sings about suicide in her single Everything I Wanted, or rather a nightmare she had, in which she committed suicide by jumping off the Golden … Continue reading Audacity 7 – Billie Eilish and Me

For a number of years, I had a recurring nightmare.  I would be returning home, walking down the garden path leading to the back door. As I put the key in to unlock the glass door, I’d see a figure standing motionless in the kitchen … Continue reading Us

I have endeavoured in this Ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea, which shall not put my readers out of humour with themselves, with each other, with the season, or with me. May it haunt their houses pleasantly, and no one wish … Continue reading A Christmas Carol BBC -22nd, 23rd, 24th December 2019