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Radio HSBC

We all popped into Hereford today, to buy some creosote to get over my clothes and into my eyes and also to some extent on our ricketty backyard fence.

Also, I planned to visit the Hereford HSBC branch while we were there. My old Mum was kind enough to send me a cheque  for my recent birthday, scraped together out of her meagre pension, . . . → Read More: Radio HSBC

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Apocalypse Weekend

Now, here’s a thing. That great man Cosmic Smiles has posted the whole of the ‘Apocalypse Weekend’ Sheep Music feature film on You Tube. I wrote most of the ‘script’. The crew had been filming the festival for a few years, and wanted to try their hands at something a bit more structured. My idea was for a series of ‘walk about’ performances which . . . → Read More: Apocalypse Weekend

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HSBC and the virtue of profit.

I think this blog is going to be about economics.  I’m not an economist. But since they seem to know bugger all anyway, I don’t see why any entirely unqualified bloke-in-the-pub shouldn’t chip in, and make just as little sense as anyone else.

 

The global economy is almost five times the size it was half a century ago. If it continues to grow . . . → Read More: HSBC and the virtue of profit.

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Good weekend so far, touch wood.

We drove to Cambridge yesterday to pick up some stuff, and on the way I bought the Radio Times and i, both of which had favouable things to say about the psycho-geography show on Radio Three.

When we got home,there was a parcel waiting, with my first copy of ‘Something of the Night’  inside. Stayed up till much too late, while I read bits . . . → Read More: Good weekend so far, touch wood.

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A Load of Sunday Night Night Music

One of the things I like about writing non-fiction is that it is easier to deal with coincidences than it is when you’re writing fiction. Coincidence does exist in fiction, of course, but you need to be a master to make it seem entirely credible… and, er… well, anyway, I like writing non-fiction.

So, I was reading through the manuscript of my recently completed . . . → Read More: A Load of Sunday Night Night Music

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