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More music
It is a part of British middle class life, to which I have been rather inefficiently glued, to wonder what would happen if one were summoned to Desert Island Discs....
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Old songs
BBC 4 is doing a show tonight about the growth of the California music industry from 1965-1975 and it’s dragging me through some amazing moments. Crosby, Stills and Nash; Neil...
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Lyrics
I was just listening to the Bush Tetras, and they said, ‘You can’t be funky if you haven’t got a soul’. (‘Can’t be funky’, from New York Noise, Rough Trade.)...
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Desperate weather (26 October walk)
The morning walk on the beach today was punctuated by unexpected animals. I’ve not really been through a whole year here, and while I see the tide rise and fall...
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medullar walk (16 October walk)
I got up very early this morning as I must go down to Edinburgh to look at the nearest available copy of Suśruta. That meant getting up at 4:00 to...