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New tyres for this journey across the UK. This time, a combination of meeting friends plus also taking a holiday in Scotland. It meant we...

Nothing to see here. No signs of a party. No wine, no Dunkin' Donuts. And it might look like a freshly installed glass-fronted wine fr...

I admit I've given up providing commentary on what the government is doing. The list of misdemeanours is too long and has too many peop...

Two interesting music events: The end of the iPod. Twenty Five Years of OK, Computer. They are not entirely linked, but do, to me, mark the...

  Just observing that this is quite a useful concept marker for my next novel.

I'm pondering whether it is better to go generic with book covers. The Bestseller top 38 have 11 books which show a silhouetted figure ...

Here we are.  The latest from Ed Adams.   It's three of the novels wrapped together.  They make a sort of mini-series, although they ar...

I headed over to 180 Studio in the Strand for the Future Shock exhibit/installation. First challenge was it was closed and had big diggers ...

I read and thoroughly enjoyed Jennifer Egan's  A Visit from the Goon Squad years ago, and it is still worth a re-read - dealing with tim...

Waken   I wake up in a hotel room. It's well provisioned, at what I'd say was early 21st century business class. Maple finish doors....

  Chatting with a group of work buddies, I explained that I subconsciously 'mark' TV and movie parties to compare them with the lavi...

A confession that I like the metaphysical mayhem of Inherent Vice so much that I've watched the movie several times, and even as I writ...