At the moment I am re-reading a humorous book about computers from 1996 called Dave Barry in Cyberspace. I have quite a few of his books and like to dip into the ones that are basically collections of his newspaper columns every now and then because they are light reading and more or less timeless. [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Nostalgia'
In praise of the OGWT
May 31st, 2012 · 1 Comment · Life, Music
Tonight BBC4 showed an edition of the Old Grey Whistle Test in its entirety. Presumably it was there to tie in with the John Cooper Clark documentary that was on immediately beforehand and doesn’t, unfortunately, mean they are going to do what they are doing with TOTP and show them all again in order. It [...]
70s Mania
April 17th, 2012 · 1 Comment · Life, Music, Politics
For all its faults, I enjoyed the first part of Dominic Sandbrook’s series on the 70s. So many memories, even though I was only between 8 and 10 during the time covered in that episode, and I’m really looking forward to the rest. If anybody else is similarly hooked I can recommend Sanbrook’s book State [...]
Tags: Nostalgia
The way we were
April 12th, 2012 · 1 Comment · Life, Technology
While I was sorting out some old books to get rid of recently (I only managed to force myself to get rid of about a dozen or so) I came across an old business card of mine that had been used as a bookmark. To be honest, most of my business cards from that, or [...]
Betta Bilda
January 10th, 2012 · 1 Comment · Life
In one of those strange coincidences I had some thoughts about toy building blocks this morning, specifically Betta Bilda bricks, and then in the afternoon a colleague raised the topic of Lego in a conversation, giving me the opportunity to voice my recently-formed theory about Betta Bilda.
Tags: Nostalgia·Schooldays
What a difference four years makes
September 1st, 2011 · No Comments · Life, Music
Midge Ure 1976 with Slik You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video Midge Ure in 1980 with Ultravox! You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video Is it OK to admit that I not only remember Slik well from then, but quite liked them and still [...]
Anorak paradise
April 26th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Life, Technology
Jayne and I went to Amberley museum for the second time in three days today. They do a deal whereby if you keep hold of your tickets you can return for free within 5 days, so we did. When we went on Saturday we left without seeing everything because we had to do some supermarket [...]
Top of the Pops
April 9th, 2011 · No Comments · Life, Music
Like many people, I have been wathcing those old 1976 TOTP episodes on BBC Four with some interest. I must have watched TOTP every week, or nearly every week for the couple of years around 1976 so I’m amazed to find quite so many performances I had entirely forgotten, sometimes by artists I had completely [...]
Me and Liz Taylor
March 23rd, 2011 · No Comments · Life
It was a while after I heard about Liz Taylor’s death that I remembered the time I met her and how it was splashed across the pages of the tabloids. I’m not sure, but it might have even been on the front page of one of them. If so it must have been a slow [...]
Tags: Newspapers·Nostalgia·Theatre
Just like the 80′s
December 3rd, 2010 · No Comments · Life, Politics
I have mixed feelings about the 80s. I know that dreadful things happened and the seeds were sown for a lot of today’s problems but personally I really enjoyed that time.  I was lucky enough to be in what turned out to be a secure job that paid OK, I had no health problems and [...]
