I wrote some fiction today with a specific aim, and great fun it was. It’s ages since I wrote fiction. I hope something comes of it. What else? Another collaborative idea. I started a song going, but I’m hoping someone else will finish it. It was a difficult riff, but it went down well on [...]
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That’s how I feel returning to blogging and podcasting and spoofing and block deleting spam after a great week in the south-west. Dartmoor and Cornwall were fabulous. It was like June. I can’t remember a better spring. But now I’m back, and cranking this blog machinery back to life. I had a great reply from [...]
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Aahhhh, that’s the life. This is me looking pale in Sardinia last year, and that will be me in Cornwall next week. The 1500 word synopsis is going well but not exactly flying off the screen. I just don’t have the motivation. After staring at the sky, I saw a Simon Cowell headline in The [...]
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I just emailed a friend about a visit I made a week ago with Caroline, just before the VT killing, to Stourhead, a beautiful National Trust park near here. We saw a really strange incident. We were trekking round the grounds, and we reached the remote King Alfred’s Tower where there’s a Victorian folly, a [...]
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Me, Pete and Terry, 3/4 of Beatlejuice on 2005 looking strange singing harmonies on Nowhere Man in Rick’s studio Reading. You can see we’re dead ringer for John, Paul, and George. Happy days. I woke up late due to some kind of sleep inducing lurg kicking in, and now it seems the day has gone. [...]
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My long satirical piece Margaret Thatcher Speaks at the Gdansk Shipyard, 1988 is now up on Hold It Up For Ridicule. I wanted to do something a lot more thoughtful than usual, and I was inspired by the Gracenesta blog which I don’t even think comes out of the UK. They certainly don’t know what [...]
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I just posted a satirical news item in Hold It Up For Ridicule, my satirical blog which I hope is funny and balanced. Check out My Satire above. I’ve been seeing and hearing news and web reports all morning about the CBI’s instruction to “target sickies”. Their timing coincides with the first day back to [...]
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Here’s a picture of me at Sandbanks on the south coast last week. The weather was just starting to take shape for a great Easter. But Easter is over, and I just posted another chapter of my satirical comedy thriller, Tony Blair: the Wilderness Years at Blogster. I started it in 2000, I finished it [...]
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It’s the warmest Easter in the UK I can remember, which is great for being outdoors, but not so great for sitting at the PC blogging. Here’s my second guitar. It’s a Hohner Fender 65 strat copy from 1981, almost certainly made in Fender’s Japan factory, but I’d have to dismantle it to find the [...]
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