Tonight I finished reading The Pull of the Moon by Diane Janes – another of my freebies from Amazon’s Vine programme. In this case it was a pre-publication uncorrected proof. I’m not sure why exactly, but I do get a little extra thrill from reading pre-publication proofs, something I possibly do more than most people [...]
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Busy week so far
March 16th, 2010 · No Comments · Life, Politics
Is it only Tuesday? The week seems old already, because ther has been a lot going on. Yesterday I went out to a gathering of lefties at an informal meeting of the local UAF, but with the news about Laura’s retirement being fresh there was a lot of gossip and speculation before we got down [...]
It’s in Belgium
March 14th, 2010 · No Comments · Life
Jayne and I sat down to watch In Bruges this evening. What a fantastic film that is. Neither of us knew much about it: she didn’t know anything and I just knew it was about a couple of hit men hiding out in Bruges. It was violent in parts, but absolutely hilarious.
Bit of a bargain [...]
Mismatch
March 13th, 2010 · No Comments · Life, Music
Watching Blues at the BBC tonight left me very confused after Long John Baldry. Surely the blues is not meant to be sung in a velvet dinner jacket, floppy bow tie and large frilly cuffs?
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Iron Maiden
March 12th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Life, Music
I watched the Iron Maiden concert that I recorded on BBC Four’s Heavy Metal Britannia night yesterday. I understand it is a cut-down version of the Flight 666 film of theirs. I don’t know what it is about Iron Maiden but I just can’t warm to them as much as I probably should.
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Crisis camps
March 11th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Life, Work
I have been aware of the existence of Crisis Camps and BarCamps for a while without really knowing what they were, through seeing frequent references to them on a couple of work colleagues’ twitterfeeds. The other day I got round to asking one of those colleagues about the Crisis Camps and it is a real [...]
Tags: Nerdvana
Just in time for Mother’s Day
March 11th, 2010 · No Comments · Life
I do not normally succumb to advertising, but yesterday I clicked through one of the adverts on Spotify. It was for a company called Flowe(red). They do flower deliveries, but unlike the other companies that do the same all profits go to the Global Fund to help eradicate AIDS in Africa.
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The mean streets of Worthing
March 10th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Life
Brighton’s Argus is always guaranteed to throw up a decent headline or two, and the best usually end up on the posters outside shops. I wonder if this headline will be one of them: Hunt for Worthing “poo thief”?
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In the Loop
March 8th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Life, Politics
I watched In the Loop on the TV this evening, so I have now seen one of the films nominated for an Oscar today. I saw it the way most of the Academy judges would have seen it – i.e. without having seen In the Thick of it. Really. Not only have I never seen [...]
Heavy Metal Britannia
March 6th, 2010 · 10 Comments · Life, Music
The BBC Four documentary Heavy Metal Britannia this evening was quite entertaining, as this whole series of programmes has been. Possibly too long for a casual non-metal fan but too short to do more than scratch the surface it was still a good way to pass 90 minutes.
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