For nearly two weeks it had become a kind of routine. I’d put my four year old son to bed, followed swiftly by my sixty-six year old mum. Then once they were safely tucked upContinue reading
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Playlist from Sunday 25th April 2021
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers / A Woman In Love (It’s Not Me) Gravey / Genius The Jesus & Mary Chain / Head On Curtis Mayfield / Soul Music Hall & Oates / I Can’tContinue reading
Playlist from Sunday 18th April 2021
Lou Rawls / You’ll Never Find Another Love Like Mine Franz Ferdinand / Sound And Vision Alison Moyet / Invisible The Rolling Stones / Honky Tonk Woman The Flying Burrito Brothers / Close Up TheContinue reading
Tommy’s Rent A Wreck
Tommy’s Rent A Wreck. Hell of a name; but it was a hell of an operation. Even if we hadn’t been on a tight budget, I’m sure Paul and Steve would’ve seen the appeal. ForgetContinue reading
Celtic Tiger
If you’re one of TRD’s new readers, welcome. I’ve got to say that it positively cooks my cockles, to think there are now more people utilising my literary efforts to while away their time onContinue reading
Fake Pandemic, Fake News!
It was gone ten this morning before I got an opportunity to say more than “would you like a coffee?” to my wife; and by that time she’d already been in a couple of remoteContinue reading
R.I.P. 2020
Ain’t Hurtin’ Nobody / John Prine October 10th 1946 – April 7th 2020 Tutti Frutti / Little Richard December 5th 1932 – May 9th 2020 Five Minutes / Stranglers ~ Dave Greenfield, keyboards March 29th 1949 – May 3rd 2020 IContinue reading
Me & Mick (Mick & Me)
“Fond Memories of Kentish Town” is an interesting example. I started it myself because I had very fond memories of the area I grew up in, but the group I’d originally joined, where I’d enjoyedContinue reading
Humanity or Hypocrisy?
If you’ve spent any time on social media recently (and frankly who hasn’t in these locked down days?), you can’t have failed to notice a rash of posts complaining about how cruel people are beingContinue reading
PhD In Life Anyone?
There’s little doubt that a number of you will have been to University, or that some of you will have gone the distance and are now entitled to stick a few choice letters after yourContinue reading