Sun Dried Sparrows

The outer sleeve of the fourth (or was it fifth?) album I ever bought was the thickest and stiffest I'd seen. The card was really sort ...

I was stood in a Post Office queue today, a couple of places in front of that man who you know. I know you know him, because he gets ev...

Sometimes the things that thrill me are just plain weird and I don't know who - or what - to turn to as a means of expressing my excitem...

This weekend I'm drawing dinosaurs.  I'm being paid  to draw dinosaurs! Sometimes I think I really must have one of the loveliest jo...

I had a lovely email via this blog from a researcher working on a new project from BBC Four, she thought some of the posts here would make s...

It took a couple of hours to seal itself itself up safely inside the nettle leaf, pulling each side together with ...

I'm putting together another blog, as a kind of side-dish to this one.  All the same posts have been, or will be, on here, so for some i...

I heard a song the other day - I can't even remember what or where and it was barely in my consciousness - but there was a staccato g...