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Sep201025

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Edinburgh, so much to answer for

When Dickens wrote about “best of times / worst of times” he wasn’t talking about Edinburgh (well, to be honest, he might have been, my English lessons at school extended back as far as Orwell and Camus, with some Shakespeare thrown in, just in case we actually started to enjoy ourselves).

Sep201025

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Radio radio

What you could have heard if you’d ‘tuned in’ to freshair.org.uk at 7pm on 10th August 2010….

Aug201024

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on the wireless

A short stint at www.freshair.org.uk has actually got me raring to go with the podcasts again. If, as ever, I can find the time…

Jul201017

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(Rounding Up) Donkeys

It’s 6pm. And I’m eating an unusually early breakfast – of veggie risotto – in a muddy car park at Armadale.

Mar201028

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Competition time…

“Never again,” I once said. “Never judge someone, lest you be judged yourself,” someone else once said.

Mar201004

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The first podcast of spring

The first podcast of spring

When I recorded this there was snow falling. It’s still lying.

Feb201028

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6Music’s inevitable demise

So, 6Music is on the way out. Ignoring for a second the fact that it was the Rupert Murdoch mouthpiece The Times which issued the ‘revelations‘,

Feb201023

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Happy birthday, King Tut’s

So, 20 years, eh? The Club Formerly Known as Saints and Sinners celebrated its china anniversary with a party thrown for those who have been significantly involved in helping elevate Tuts to what is, it must be said, legendary status. (Or, as Jim Gellatly said, “mythical”).

Feb201021

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Hello you !

Welcome to the blog. This is my first post.
That’s largely what the default text says. Actually not my first post by any means, but the first on this particular blog. I’ve tried to keep a regular blog going before, and indeed there are still posts ‘out there’ (well, here and here), but what with me [...]

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