Life's about experiences. These are mine.
Day one of our trip to Italy to stalk our younger son who is also visiting the region as part of the Berkshire Maestros Guitar Orchestra. He set off on Tuesday morning by coach. We set off Wednesday morning by plane. We were both supposed to arrive at roughly the same time – 2pm Wednesday. …
Last September Helen and I spent two days driving down the Great Ocean Road in Victoria, Australia. Last weekend we found somewhere equally as beautiful and much closer to home – the Causeway Costal Route. This is a stretch of road along the coast of Northern Ireland running from Belfast to Londonderry and it is …
And this is what Crowded House look like when at Hammersmith last night. Yes I was back to see them once again and for the last time on this tour (probably). Once again they were great, playing some unusual tracks (“Recurring Dream” anyone?), as well as plenty of crowd pleasers. However, unlike Oxford, there was …
Crowded House are always good for a laugh when live and last night at the Oxford Apollo was no different. They (eventually) played a good mix of new, unreleased until Monday, songs and older stuff. I was a little concerned as the first 2/3rds were from the last few albums but as time went on …
It seems that presidential style election debates are all the rage in the UK this year and last night I got to see one – regrettably not THE leaders debate but a similar event that was being held in each BBC region last night and televised. Actually it was more like Question Time than the …
The UK has been basking in unseasonably fine weather for the last couple of weeks. There has certainly been no sign of the “April showers” and the forecasts are suggesting that it is going to stay dry for a little while longer yet. This has led to us being able to go to Centreparcs for …
Having been at Bush Hall only a few weeks previously to see Liam Finn Mat and I were back again last night to see Liam’s Dad and he was just superb. The venue is tiny and there were only 350 tickets available to the public and all of them were snapped up by members of …
Spent last night at my first concert of the year at a chilly Shepherd’s Bush Empire seeing OK GO. I had been in two minds as to whether to go as the weather was grotty still but Mat was keen to go and so we went and I am glad that I did. For a …
Just going through the photos taken when on our tour of Australia and Hong Kong and came across this one taken at Melbourne airport. Now I know that “aviation security” or terrorism as it is called outside of airports, is important but I have never considered jokes as “a threat to commit an unlawful interference …
The final day of our holidays and another hot and steamy day in Hong Kong. We decided to spend the day away from the city and get a bit of culture with a visit to the Po Lin Monastery & Big Buddha. This was a trip on the MTR (Hong Kong’s underground) followed by a …