Go here, it’s good (and funny)
Jul 072010
Jun 302010
In the office at Battle, it’s well warm enough to have the windows open. The air that flows past me is scented with flowers and cut grass and the faintest trace of cows and sheep (mmm-mm!). The birds are singing fit to bust in every shaded nook (poetry hem-hem) and you have to wonder – work! What’s it all about? All I really want is a tiny house (with broadband) in a remote spot with my girly by my side, cats in the garden and wildlife within easy viewing range, along with occasional visits from Hannah to show me her new tattoo and discuss Japanese cinema … it’s not much to ask is it? Oh and some beer in the fridge (not too much) and a tot of single malt for the colder evenings. Heyho.
Nobby recommends -
The Japanese version of Dark Water – way more spooky, even tho’ I’d go a long way for Jennifer Connolly
[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0308379/]
Jungle Blues by C W Stoneking – click here
Laphroaig – click here
‘So run, Reynard, run … from the fools dressed in red’
Jun 292010
Coming soon – a free MP3 download of ‘Run for it, Reynard’, an anti-foxhunting song what I wrote. I got lucky with the recording and it came together really well (to my mind) so keep yer eyes peeled and get it for free real soon
Mar 032010
So – who’s saucier. Brunette brainbox and prototype independent avatar Zoe Graystone or hardened-steel mother-of-all-Cylons Zoe Graystone? You decide … (I rather like the one above, but that’s me)
Feb 262010
Stanhope - listen to him
Feb 062010
I done it … and it wasn’t easy. Now the settling in period, when everyone with an axe to grind will use this event as an excuse for a dig. Here’s the link to what I made – largely in my own time and off my own bat, with no brief, no help and precious little time … I’ll get few thanks and heaps of derision … and no money. But I did it.
http://www.englishchess.org.uk
To paraphrase the mighty Abe Lincoln …
‘You can please all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot please all the people all the time’
Jan 192010
<rant>Death is a terrifying full stop. We get one go round on a planet which may be the only inhabited world in this part of space (although I doubt it) and what does mankind, the so-called dominant species spend most of its time doing? You got it – fighting, f**king other people over, being unimaginably cruel to anyone or anything within reach, accruing as much wealth in money and objects as we can only to what? Die … and when the earth is a cinder in a decaying orbit around a dead star, we won’t be out there as an enlightened race of intergalactic travellers, we’ll have argued up to the last minute about oil, land, money and being shown the right amount of ‘respect’, whatever the hell that means.
There are times when, if there had been a paper to sign with ‘Please choose your preferred species’ at the point of birth, I would have ticked ANYTHING except ‘Human’. One planet, maybe the only one planet – and just look at what we’re doing … </rant>
Dec 312009
2010 (MMX) is a common year starting on Friday. In the Gregorian calendar, it is the 2,010th year of the Anno Domini or Common Era epoch, the tenth year of the 3rd millennium and of the 21st century, and the first year of the 2010s decade. Proclaimed by the United Nations, 2010 is the International Year of Biodiversity
Also – the year of Iron Man II, The Wolfman and, of course, Piranha-3D
Dec 222009
For Hastings history fans of all ages -
The new Hastings Chronicle website is up and running!
Be there or be square – comments and contributions welcome
- Visit the site – before the site visits you!
Dec 152009
What if we got together and talked?