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  • What’s next?

    I don’t know what I’m doing with this blog now. It feels like I’m paying WordPress just to prevent ads from making it ugly. Since 2008 I’ve written quite a bit about people in music and film wherever I am.… Continue reading

    What’s next?
  • First dawn of 2025

    Happy new year folks. Continue reading

    First dawn of 2025
  • On the balcony

    Sitting out with Wookie wondering if it will rain, when this noisy kookaburra lands, making a racket. They’re so big with these massive heads! He’s about half the size of Wookie! Pretty cool though. Chubby too. They live well out… Continue reading

    On the balcony
  • 5AM

    I can hear a cock crowing. I’m at my desk working out a simpler version of the organ parts in No Woman No Cry. Mike is asleep. So is Wookie, in his fluffy cubby hole under my feet. Want to… Continue reading

    5AM
  • Nita’s borlotti beans

    My cousin Nita is Italian and grows borlotti beans in her garden. She gave me some to plant, and I recently cooked some for the first time. I love when a new shoot appears from the ground, it’s like: Yes!… Continue reading

    Nita’s borlotti beans
  • Mum’s Chinese rice bowl

    I was in the kitchen about to have some yoghurt, when out of the blue I thought about my late mum. I went into our “dungeon”, the space underneath our home, and found a box with sets of her Chinese… Continue reading

    Mum’s Chinese rice bowl
  • My Little Old Man

    Wookie has an awesome moustache and lovely old man grey eyebrows. He is a Havanese with “tricolour points”. I don’t know much about this but there’s a lot about Havanese colour variations on this site Havanese ABCs. My little old… Continue reading

    My Little Old Man