Copland creatures on a keyboard
More creature stuff. Earlier this evening, I spoke on the phone with friends, exchanging Christmas greetings. The teenage daughter of the family is about to do Grade 8 piano or some such unimaginably...
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This afternoon I sent out an email message to about fifty or more of my nearest and dearest, saying that I now have lung cancer. Since among my nearest and dearest are those who read this little blog...
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The old black router and the new white router – from normal style back to...
No time for much here today, although I have today done more than I usually do in the way of commenting. Much of the day was spent snoozing in bed while The Guru sorted out the outage, and then with me...
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Hitchens talks to Paxman
I fear that I may now be an I-may-be-about-to-die bore. In the sense that I can think of nothing which I am now doing or saying or even thinking which is not happening under the shadow of my recent...
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It’s hard to know what will be temporary
When I photoed this photo, I’m pretty sure that it was the Big Things in the background that I was thinking about. 22 Bishopsgate, is it? No sign of that. Or of the Scalpel. The Cheesegrater still...
View ArticleDeath and detail
Yesterday, my Senior Designated Friend and I communed with my lawyer, via Zoom (which my SDF organised on her laptop). All seemed to go well. I had been ignoring Zoom, until the lawyer said he needed...
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The ups and downs of Oscar
If you type “Oscar” into the bit under where it says “SEARCH” on the left, you will find your way to lots of good photos of Oscar, the cat of GodDaughter2’s family who live in the South of France....
View ArticleBuggering on
According to GodDaughter2’s Dad in one of his recent emails, Churchill once said something about how we just have to keep buggering on. Either that or GD2D made this up. Anyway, that’s what I am now...
View ArticleBeware of all enterprises that require new clothes
Michael Jennings said this, five years ago. I believe he now has a new job.
View ArticleThe Brian Micklethwait Archive goes public
Just over a month ago I learned that I will die rather sooner than I had been supposing, and I asked, by way of being cheered up, for people to say nice things, preferably in public, about my various...
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The books I’ll be talking about this afternoon with Patrick Crozier
This afternoon, all being well, Patrick Crozier and I will finally get around to doing our podcast on the Industrial Revolution: Good Thing and here’s why it happened. I will be making the running and...
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A ball point pen for eight pence!
Here are two more photos photoed with my Samsung Galaxy Something mobile phone: I came upon these pens while seeking something else, as you do. I then took these photos because what I was seeing...
View ArticlePatrick and I finally did our Industrial Revolution podcast
In this posting here just over a week ago, I showed you all a pile of books, and said that if all went well I’d be recording a conversation with Patrick Crozier in which I’d speak about these books...
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Beard Trimmer in the distance
Incoming from GodDaughter2: Somewhere just downstream of Tate Modern. That kind of area. It’s the old Big-Thing-in-the-distance-through-a-gap-in-the-buildings effect, which often happens, as here, when...
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A list of Libertarian Alliance publications by Chris Tame
I’ve been reflecting on the career and achievements of Chris Tame: Those being three more photos of Chris that I recently exhumed from my “filing system”. Below is a list of the pieces of writing by...
View ArticleHow to win the libertarian argument with hippos
Once again, I am saying a big thank you to Rob Fisher, for doing his bit to make my life and libertarianising echo in eternity. (Commenters, what movie am I quoting there? I liked that phrase the...
View ArticlePatrick and I talk about the current state of libertarianism
I’ve had a busy day doing other things, but last Tuesday, Patrick Crozier and I recorded a conversation about the current state of the libertarian movement, and I can at least today report that Patrick...
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Funerial thoughts
Strange day. I spent a lot of it planning my own funeral, which will, as is traditional, be an event at which I will be present but not paying any attention, if you get my meaning. The thing is, it’s...
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Oscar on roof patrol
Friday being my day for non-human creatures, Good Friday is a good day for a good non-human creature. So here, again, is Oscar: Master of all he surveys, in a small town in the South of France, at the...
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How the 1440 bit of Berlin looks now
Incoming from Michael Jennings: Someone has helpfully provided a photo of the same section of Berlin … I.e. (see the top of this posting) this section: This being how this same section looks today:...
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