ShavingI’m giving serious consideration to growing a goatee. This is not down to any desire to appear fashionable. It is down to pandemic induced laziness. We’ll see how it goes.
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Album 1It’s a thing on Facebook - post ten album covers, no explanation. I don’t get it. I’d like to hear the explanation. There’s a story waiting to be told. I haven’t bothered doing it on Facebook. But I’ll share ten of my favourite albums with you here. My rule for curating this list? I … Continue reading
StupidI genuinely despair. The internet should have, could have, been the tool to bring shared wisdom and learning to the world. It seems to me to be doing the opposite to a not insignificant portion of the world. There are those who share hate. And those who share stupid, wrapped in the comforting blanket of … Continue reading
Armchair DepartureI suggested a couple of weeks ago that the odds of our trip to Chicago going ahead had dramatically increased. What had previous been a 0.1% shot stood with a dizzying 1.5% chance of happening. Of course, this still left a 98.5% chance of it not happening. The flight was today. It was not … Continue reading
#ThrowbackthursdayLondon, July 2018. Once upon a time, you could attend a protest without worrying about social distancing. Two years later, not much has changed. But we are, one hopes, closer to the end of his presidency.
Lockdown Walks, Day 80Are we still officially in lockdown? I assume that, technically, we are. A less restricted lockdown than was the case a month ago. And in practice, a lot of people decided that lockdown rules ceased to apply to them when the government announced that they didn’t apply to Dominic Cummings. Either way, … Continue reading
StatuesThe world needs another source of racial tension like any of us need a hole in the head. But we have it. Statues. Specifically, statues of persons with links to unsavoury, often murderous pasts. The statue of a slave trader, Mr Colston, was ripped down by Bristolian protesters just a few days ago and thrown … Continue reading
The Mexile 