Prometheus in Aspic

I still own a lot of CDs, which I am told is very 1990s. I don't care - they are mine, and I love them (most of them), and I can play th...

Mention of the late Clive Smithers came up in an email exchange this week with a friend, who remembered that around this time of year Clive ...

 A respectful note from me for the passing of Dame Cleo, who has died at the age of 97. Here's a little dalliance with Shakespeare; my f...

 I've always been fascinated by how memory works. Part of this has been reinforced recently by living through my mother's mental dec...

 No garden progress this week, since it has been raining steadily (which is, of course, perfect for new plants). I've been doing Other T...

 I read recently that the public library in Macdonald Road was 120 years old last year - I confess that I was rather surprised to learn that...

 This follows a lighthearted conversation with a friend, in which we were lamenting things from our past which, somehow or other, seem to ha...

 The title, of course, is a joke. This is just going to be the usual self-indulgent stuff about me, me, me, but let's sustain the preten...

 Last week I visited Liverpool, with one of my sons. Although it is my home town, it had been six years since my previous trip there.   Tour...

 Another affectionate, though pointless, tale, prompted by an email exchange with a former work colleague this week. The tale is one of spor...

 After some rather hectic weeks of trying to plug holes in dykes, I am pleased to be able to say that I have managed to get my mother safely...

 Memory of long ago - a gentler age? I heard this morning of the death, at age 80, of Françoise Hardy, who was never a great singer, certain...

 While I'm on a run of avoiding "me-too" tributes, here's a recollection of a childhood hero of mine, who passed away this...

 I have something of an aversion to the standard "me too" notices which are published on social media when a significant public fi...

 A tale from long ago, prompted because I was discussing it with my wife recently, and I had some difficulty believing that it actually happ...

 Another worthless tale from my distant youth - this one at least has the slight compensations of a whiff of crime and some vintage technolo...