Category: Reportage
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Amen to this (from a fellow blogger)
a fellow blogger writes about what we all dread, writer’s block. Is ig really the end of creativity?
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“10cc: Best of the 70s” Disky Compilation (Released 2000) Review: Music, History, and Gizmo
Having read more record reviews than I’ve had hot dinners in my youth, in such august journals as the New Musical Express (NME), Sounds, Melody Maker, Q, Uncut, and Mojo, I’ve decided it would be a great feat for me, to review all of my own CDs in alpha order. I currently have 374 CDs…
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Ronda through the Years Nostalgia, Adventure, and Enduring Beauty
I worked in Gibraltar between September 2007 and March 2008. The first time I went to Ronda was when Simon, a long-lost work colleague
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Just another book review … (contains spoilers)
I recently read “High-Rise” by J G Ballard and thought I’d review it on www.goodreads.com …
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Illuminating Hadrian’s Wall
Drawn by the first-ever lighting of the 70-mile monument from end to end, thousands of visitors filled every local car park, lay-by and footpath, while helicopters and a NASA satellite recorded the necklace of beacons from above. I played my part!
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In the park
I had an appointment to get my laptop battery fixed. But before the appointment I ate a sandwich in Preston’s attractive, undulating Winckley Square park, within a square containing some fine original buildings. I recorded a few observations on my phone, transcribed below and now I can delete my recordings. As you read the few…
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CAC and Centre Pompidou Malaga
In December 2018 on a day when I was starting with man ’flu, I revisited CAC Màlaga for the Hernan Bas exhibition, and also ventured into Centre Pompidou Màlaga, for the first time. I’d been looking forward to that for a while. The last time I’d been to CAC was to see Vik Muniz’s “Wasteland” exhibition.…
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Treasure Hunting
I wrote this in 2013, when I was working in Alderley Edge. I was interested in geocaching [an outdoor recreational activity, in which participants use a GPS receiver or mobile device and other navigational techniques to hide and seek containers, called “geocaches” or “caches”, at specific locations marked by coordinates all over the world…thanks Wikipedia!]…
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Librivox
How I learned to volunteer my voice on LibriVox the free audiobook provider for books in the Public Domain
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I Feel Fine
A long time ago when I lived in the Midlands, Mum and Dad used to go to a country club that was so posh it had its own hairdressers! And even more incredible to me… inside the hairdressers was a jukebox! The salon owner would give Dad the discarded singles whenever he put new ones into…
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