If you didn’t have to sleep, what would you do with the extra time? I would like to say that I would put the extra time into a practical and profitable manner but more likely I'd just use the extra time to come up with more and more ingenious ways of procrastinating. I'd probably spend … Continue reading Share Your World 18th February 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdDKuhSIPKI It has been a fairly decent week I guess. Sunday was a good day and a rare one which I had off, so naturally I went done to Jazz Club 90 of the lunchtime to see the band which was the new to the club Alex Clarke Hot Five which showcased a young … Continue reading Last Week
The Apex Jazz and Swing Band has been one of the mainstays of Jazz Club 90 over the years, it is lead by multi reeds man Robin Mason and has always been a safe pair of hands on the stage. I don’t mean that as a bad thing, the band is continually solid and thoroughly … Continue reading Gig Report: Apex Jazz and Swing Band 2-12-18
It is no longer the days of noble Knights seeking validation by going on quests, but I still feel that we go on our own personal quests. We might not be looking for the Holy Grail or rescuing fair-maidens from the clutches of diabolical villains but I think we all are looking for something to … Continue reading RDP: The Quest is the Quest
You’re walking in a forest and you find a black suitcase. Inside it is one millions dollars and a piece of paper, stained in blood and bearing the single word “Don’t!” Would you take the suitcase home or leave it? No I don't as chances are that this could be used in evidence in a … Continue reading Share Your World 14-1-19
Did you have to help out with chores when you were growing up? If so, what were you assigned to do? Yes, I would do the dishes- either washing or drying. Rake up leaves off the lawn, do the hoovering and occasionally mo the lawn. When very young it was pretty much laying the table. … Continue reading Share Your World 7th January 2019
In response to Fandango's One Word Challenge: Cycle When I was a small boy it seemed compulsory for me to learn how to ride a bike, despite my complete lack of interest in it. This wasn't laziness, I was quite happy to walk places and do what passed as running as well, but I just … Continue reading Trandem Tension
As a creative person it would seem I have a few traits with Ernest Hemingway. No, I don't have a desire to go on Safari in Africa and shoot the animals (unless it's with a camera of course) or an obsession with Bullfighting. No, I share a similar habit of sitting in licensed premises and … Continue reading FOWC: The Notebook
No this isn't going to a reappropriation of the "Glory Glory, Hallelujah" song (as the Battle Hymn of the Republic is known in some circles) to a Shropshire set of lyrics or anything like that. I was wondering what, if anything, would my personal theme song be? Being a man whose Brain immediately starts running … Continue reading The Battle Hymn of the North Shropshire Sandman
If your five year old self woke up in your current body, what would happen, what would you say? Probably relieved that from a physical point of view I would be taken seriously. What is a relationship deal breaker for you? Whether you are talking about a romantic one, a friendship or a related to … Continue reading Share Your World 26th November 2018
