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Absent friends
I’ve not been out much lately, what with the ghastly weather, and you know, not so much wanting to. So I went rootling through the photo-archives for something worth putting up here, today. And came...
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Tom Chivers: This is weirdly engrossing. I am off out soon, to spend an unpredictable fraction of this evening with GodDaughter2. So I need something up here before I go, so I don’t have to fret about...
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The miscalculations of the Tiggers
Way back in the Spring of last year, when the Brexit battle was still raging away in Parliament and when Theresa May was still the Prime Minister, Patrick Crozier and I did a podcast o this subject. A...
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Join the Police and get yourself nicer eyelashes
Earlier in the week, GodDaughter2 was out West, doing an audition (successfully as it turned out), and afterwards we met up. After dining, we visited the nearby Westfield shopping centre, and while she...
View ArticlePatrick Crozier and I talk about the Falklands War
As earlier noted, Patrick Crozier and I recently recorded a conversation about the Falklands War, involving both what we each remembered about it from when we lived through it (early in 1982), and what...
View ArticleSome podcasting numbers
On Thursday, I did a little posting on Samizdata, flagging up the conversation that Patrick Crozier and I recorded on the subject of the Falklands War. I’ve already mentioned this conversation a couple...
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A fond farewell to some disintegrated footwear
I am a terrible hoarder. I often find chucking useless stuff out damn near impossible. Especially if, as with the collapsed sandals pictured below, they have given me a decade and more of faithful...
View ArticleA twenty-first century moment
Central to understanding it is that I still don’t understand it. Okay, so earlier this evening my phone rang. I picked it up, and said, to some suspiciously silent silence, “Hello”. No answer. “Hello”....
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A year ago today …
I was in St Cyprien, in the extreme south of France, staying with my extreme south of France friends (aka GodDaughter2’s family). Roof clutter ancient and modern, wires, orange tiles, fishing...
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Le bar à chats in Perpignan
As already much mentioned this week, I was in the south of France exactly a year ago, and as also already mentioned, exactly a year ago yesterday, I and various members of GodDaughter2’s family,...
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Private jet with tent
Indeed: Photoed by Michael Jennings at Madras Municipal Airport, and posted on Facebook on August 21st 2017. Said Michael, next to the photo: All accommodation in this town has been sold out for three...
View ArticleAnother recorded conversation with Patrick (about the WW2 bombing offensive)
Tomorrow afternoon Patrick Crozier and I will be recording another of our recorded conversations. Assuming all the technology behaves as it should, it will in due course go here. We’re going to be...
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The Merlin and the man who made it fly
Sadly, Patrick and I were unable to record our intended WW2 bombing conversation this afternoon. Patrick has done his bit, but it turns out that my mere phone won’t suffice and I need to get Skype...
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Love the NHS or die!
And speaking of photos by other people, as I just was, what of Michael Jennings? I linked to a photo of his not long ago, and do so quite often. Well, on the first day of this month, Mchael was, he...
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Alex Singleton’s website
Yes, incoming from Alex Singleton: Hi Brian, Hope you are keeping well. I thought you might find this amusing – a full and frank confession of my time as a teenager:...
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No shininess at Eltz
Nudged, I’m guessing, by this posting of mine, Michael Jennings earlier this month Facebooked this closer-up photo he had photoed of Eltz Castle: A classic of ancient adhocistical anarchy, I think...
View ArticleA recorded conversation by phone
Today, Patrick Crozier and I at last got around to doing the recorded conversation we failed to do earlier. About the Allied WW2 bombing offensive. We did it down the phone rather than face-to-face,...
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One Park Drive – in January 2019 and now
For me, January 17th 2019 began wonderfully, with scaffolding. I was on my way to meet up with occasional commenter here Alastair James, in Docklands, and it was a great day. Meeting him in Docklands...
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Close-up ducklings
The same friend who photoed this bird, photoed these little birds, in Clissold Park, two days ago, again with an iPhone: One duckling in particular, really. Guns didn’t cause birds to become more...
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Two people and two things I am missing
From the photo-archives, December 2014: That’s a photo of two of my favourite people, GodDaughter2 and GodDaughter2’s Mum, walking by the sea, somewhere on the coast of Brittany. Think of this photo as...
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