la vie en straw

I was reminded of a pithy lyric during my vinyl breakfast the other morning, sitting on the back balcony at the beginning of a glorious da...

... Anything could happen in the next half hour! The immortal words that begin each episode of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson's Stingray ....

Yes, you guessed it, during the long train journeys of last month I read Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything . Mind-bog...

January was one of those months, as it often is. A happy sad month. The title incidentally comes from a Tim Buckley album, a singer-songwrit...