Life's about experiences. These are mine.
I’ve always wanted to find interesting gifts for people for birthdays and Christmas. I also want to avoid repeating myself but the longer you’ve known someone the harder it becomes and socks just won’t cut it. So it was that I found myself on a train making my way to Bristol to meet my Dad …
With ‘Freedom Day’ on the horizon I thought it was worth taking a closer look at one of the strangest rules that seems to have been universally applied during the pandemic. Those around public toilet access and they are pretty nonsensical. I don’t remember reading anything about this in the official government rules. It also …
I got a notification today that a concert I had booked for September 2021 had been moved (for a second time) to April 2022. This both perplexed and depressed me in equal measures. It is just about a year since the UK entered the first lockdown. At that point we really didn’t know what to …
On a normal year by this point I would have have been to see, on average, about five music concerts. This, of course, is not a normal year by any means and so the total stands exactly at a measly one. There were supposed to be more. I had booked to see Steve Hackett (twice), …
Someone asked me recently why I haven’t been blogging as often as I had previously. The reason is simply that at the moment every day looks pretty much like every other and there’s not much to say. However, the end of the second lock down in the UK neatly coincided with my wife’s retirement. Normal …