Two recommendations

Yes, I’m still alive.  Whoo-hoo/ Ah crap*
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I have encountered two things on the web that I thought might interest you.

Meanwhile, on a lighter note

Thanks for the messages of support, both the ones left here, and the ones emailed.  Sorry for not replying.  It’s been (and still is) – well, you know.
Meanwhile, on a lighter note, and against all the odds, this has been making me feel almost festive:

Did you know this about the postal strike?

Because I didn’t.
In all the talk about the postal strikes, we’ve been hearing a lot that the Royal Mail is dying.  No-one sends letters anymore, we’re told, they use email instead.  It’s a persuasive argument, because it seems intuitively correct – I send quite a few emails, and I almost never write a letter.  But [...]

Review: Frankmusik – Complete Me

I first became aware of Frankmusik (real name Vincent Frank) because he provided a remix of the Pet Shop Boys single ‘Love etc’.  After that, he became one of those people whose names just seem to crop up from time to time, far enough above the radar that you remember who they are, but far [...]

The West Lothian question

Yes, it’s another post where I give free rein to my inner political geek, I’m afraid.  There’s quite a lot going on with me, both in real life, and in mentalist terms, but that’s not something I feel I can write about at the moment, so I’m reduced to this dull-as-dishwater stuff.  Ah well, I’ll [...]

Glastonbury

Ok, so we’ve reached the end of another Glastonbury festival, and it’s now mandatory to say that it was a ‘classic’, and ‘the best Glastonbury ever’.  But the think is, I really don’t think it was.

Pet Shop Boys already said it

Though the chances that I’ve let
Pass me by (and now regret
I can’t forget) -
They’re haunting me
Like a score of unpaid debts.
Is it enough to live in hope
That one day we’ll be free,
Without this fear?

 Pet Shop Boys, ‘Discoteca‘, from Bilingual, 1996.
  

Or will spring bring rain and summer burn?
Will tears at last precede the turn
From summer warmth [...]

All in the mind

Now, is there some way I can get somebody to play a fanfare or something?   I mean, after featuring on national radio last night, I feel I should make a bit of an entrance.  Nothing too fancy.  Something quiet and low-key like the state opening of parliament should cover it.  I shouldn’t need more than [...]