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Entries from June 3rd, 2009

The other boot has dropped

June 3rd, 2009 · 2 Comments · Politics

I hope everybody is familiar with the old saying about the other boot dropping?  It is about when the bloke upstairs disturbs you at night when he removes his boots.  You hear the thud as the first one hits the floor above you and can’t relax because you know the second one is going to […]

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Scary book

June 3rd, 2009 · 19 Comments · Politics

I’m still reading When The Lights Went Out – Britain in the Seventies.   It is all about events thirty years ago, but has some very topical echoes, especially on the very scary page 413…

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The drums

June 3rd, 2009 · 5 Comments · Music

Some days you just need to watch a drum solo or three.  I have been known to get out the music DVDs and watch the Prairie Prince solo from the Tubes Wild West Show, the John Bonham Moby Dick solo from the Led Zep DVD,  Neil Peart from Rush Live in Rio and then wrap […]

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Greenfingers

June 3rd, 2009 · Comments Off on Greenfingers · Life

Its funny the things that make you miss somebody.  Jayne is away this week on a school trip, leaving me and the kids to wreck look after the house.  As she has taken our only surviving car with her, it leaves me a bit stranded here.  By the time I have cycled up that hill […]

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