Dog Man Star

Nov 28

It seems strange to review an album when it is already over 14 years old. Yes, really. God, I’m old. But something is compelling me to do it. It is generally impossible to say that anything is a ‘favourite’. The concept simply doesn’t and shouldn’t exist. But you have to have stock answers. So when someone asks me my favourite band, I...

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Local Author Eats (again)

Nov 28

Local Author Eats (again)

Taken with Stu’s crappy phone.

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Publishing Mogul Out To Lunch

Nov 28

Publishing Mogul Out To Lunch

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Meanwhile in 1886…

Nov 17

Meanwhile in 1886…

As with all great butterflies, it doesn’t take much to send me off onto another flower. Wasn’t feeling too peaky last week, so the slightest suggestion from my Dad/Auntie that I should do some family tree digging had me off and running on a little bit of genealogy. And, I have to say, it was rather good fun. I started by trotting off down the line of the...

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Apparently It’s Nearly Xmas

Nov 11

Apparently It’s Nearly Xmas

Going to start doing the occasional micro-photo-blog like what we did on the Sucata Run. I’ll stop when it reveals that I do little of interest. For those of you lucky enough never to set foot in Livingston, this is what Xmas looks like in the shiny new shopping...

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