31/03/2020 :: COVID-19 A New Journal of the Plague Year A good pal of mine is blogging their way through COVID-19. You too may enjoy A New Journal of the Plague Year.
19/03/2020 :: Music Best Of Your Life (Little Monkeys) The band I was in in 2005 played The Marquee. Here's a song from that gig. Little Monkeys – Best of Your Life (Live at the Marquee, December 2005)Shouts to Jon Ewen (vocals)
18/03/2020 :: Your Illustrious Host Well, isn't this lovely? Maybe you heard something about a virus...? The delight that is COVID-19 is making its merry way around the globe. Thousands have died, hundreds of thousands have caught it (how the hell have
25/02/2020 :: Thinks Please hold, caller... ...your call is important to us. But we are going through a number of things at the moment, and honestly haven't felt capable of blogging for a while. It's OK to not be
21/05/2019 :: Albums of the Years Clive's Album of the Year, 2018 We appear to be smack-gob in the middle of another golden age of music, at least for the music I like.
08/05/2019 :: Cubing 4x4 solve Here we see our hero solving the Supernova WuQue 4x4 M in a pretty poor time of 5:00. (Video, duration 1:13)
28/04/2019 :: Cubing Cubist If R' D' R D means anything to you, you know the kind of thing I'm talking about.
05/04/2019 :: Music 2011 AotY Retcon Small point of order – I have retroactively changed Clive's Album of the Year 2011.
20/03/2019 :: Your Illustrious Host Dark mode Sometimes I post stuff on here that doesn't sound very happy, or not like I'm in a very good place.
08/10/2018 :: Misc Things American people refer to all the time as if everyone knows what they are, but anyone from outside North America doesn't... Half & half, Sweet & Low, Crisco, WTF?
21/08/2018 :: Misc Spontaneous fictions, x in an occasional series... Don’t start on them. You know they’ve been short staffed since that thing with Kenny.
13/07/2018 :: Your Illustrious Host Dad In 1926 in the city of Liverpool there was born a boy, and today would have been his 92nd birthday...
08/06/2018 :: Your Illustrious Host The Gin Diesel Many years ago, I came up with an excellent name for a cocktail – the "Gin Diesel".
11/05/2018 What now? So yeah, observant listeners may have realised that I have now completed my task of picking an Album of the Year (plus runners-up where applicable) for every year from 2017 right back to the year of my birth, 1974.
