We took the dogs for a bit of a walk in Tilgate forest today and I got a chance to experience a phenomenon that Jayne told me about last week. I don’t think her description did it justuce, but I don’t think any description could. I think you have to see it for yourself. As […]
Entries Tagged as 'Life'
Brutalism at the Beeb
February 27th, 2014 · No Comments · Life
I’m a bit hooked on the series Jonathan Meades has been doing on brutalism, even though I can’t really say I enjoy it. It is compelling but almost impossible to make any sense of. For a show about a particular school of architecture it is very short on hard facts about that architecture or the […]
Tags: Architecture·TV
Arctic Monkeys at the BRITs
February 19th, 2014 · 2 Comments · Life, Music
This is not really about the Arctic Monkeys or even about the BRITs. It is more about a grumpy old man’s grumbling about, well about being grumpy and old mainly. I watched a bit of the BRITs tonight, and that in itself is saying something because I did only watch it for a while and […]
Tags: Nostalgia
Harry Brown
February 16th, 2014 · No Comments · Life
I have been working my way through Netflix while I am on the six-month free trial that comes with Virgin Media. The selection on Netflix comes in for a lot of criticism because it is not a place where you will find loads of recent blockbusters (about the only film on there that is both […]
A few thoughts about the tube strikes
February 12th, 2014 · 1 Comment · Life, Politics
Having spent six years working for one of London Underground’s contractors and, before that, six years working for London Underground itself I am somewhat familiar with the tube, even if I have not used it much in the last ten years. The current dispute is mainly about Boris Johnson’s plans to cut the numbers of […]
Tags: London·Trade Unions·Transport
Some thoughts about flooding
February 11th, 2014 · 1 Comment · Life, Politics
I’ve always had a sort of morbid fascination with floods. Wherever I have lived I have always found myself at some point trying to mentally work out contours and relative heights to reassure myself that I am on high enough ground to not be likely to have my house flooded. I can remember even as […]
My emails
February 9th, 2014 · No Comments · Life, Technology
Huge apologies to anybody who has tried to contact me by e-mail on the old Skuds@blueyonder address in the last four or five (or maybe more) months. I didn’t read your e-mails. Here’s the thing. I decided to use my gmail more because it was dead easy to set up on my tablet and phone. […]
Tags: Doh!
A little bit of politics there
January 28th, 2014 · No Comments · Life
During the holidays I used some some Amazon gift tokens to treat myself to, amongst other things, a box set(*) of Ben Elton concerts to make up for getting rid of my old VHS of his. I wasn’t sure what I would make of them but with nearly seven hours of stand-up for just over […]
Dynamo
January 26th, 2014 · 1 Comment · Life
I watched a bit of Dynamo on television last night. Actually I watched a lot more than I intended because I always find magic shows to be quite compelling. One thing that kept being said by the people who witnessed his tricks was “that’s just not right”, and I kind of agree with them. When […]
Tags: TV
Allo John got a new motor?
January 14th, 2014 · 5 Comments · Life
I really must apologise to any friends, family and colleagues I may have bored shitless over the last few weeks about cars, but there is a reason why I got over-excited about what most people would consider a fairly tame car. The thing is, our old Focus was getting to the point where servicing and […]
Tags: Cars
Generally I try to stay away from current music because I think I will just look like Dad did...