Reading time: < 1 min So my Gran is doing fine, still able to talk the hind legs off several donkeys and still willing to admit she’s a stubborn old bitch. All good (there is a draft post about this but I can’t finish the damn thing without bawling my eyes out… might never be posted… ). ~ Completely and…
Reading time: < 1 min Joanna Newsom – The Milk-Eyed Mender @ Amazon.co.uk You always remember something unique, and it was on “Later with Jools Holland” that I first heard Joanna Newsom. Sitting with her harp, performing The Book of Right-On, the rhythms of a late night jazz bass underlined the classical sounds of the upper reaches of the harp…
Reading time: < 1 min Thanks to the Metro (the internet; printed) for making my morning already. Page 3 features a nice photo of the new Dove soap ladies. Real women and twice as sexy as any anorexic Annie. Page 17 has a look at the latest from Marks and Sparks modelled by the number ONE lady on my “list”,…
Reading time: 2 mins It’s been a while since I added Technorati tagging to my posts, has anyone used them? Found them helpful? I’m hoping they are providing a few good pointers to other related posts and so saving me the hassle of finding and posting the links myself, thus giving me a CBATG meets Technorati = web-based lifehack…
Reading time: 2 mins The Soul of a Butterfly by Muhammad Ali. I know I’m not alone in my admiration of this man, and I know that that admiration may be flawed but when you begin to understand what he has been through in his life, Parkinson’s aside, he becomes all the more remarkable. I don’t share his religious/spiritual…
Reading time: < 1 min Some people say that bloggers whine and moan a lot. That they are self-absorbed and lack certain characteristics. Some even say that we only respond to instant gratification and have shortened attention spans. I wonder if anyone else is bothered about the future?