Holiday 2016 – Glastonbury & Cornwall
This year we made our annual pilgrimage to Cornwall while stopping over at Glastonbury and taking in the surrounding area.
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You have only 24 hours to save the world… Well what would you do..? The story centres around Zack Lightman, a typical American high-school teenager with a passion for gaming. Orphaned 19 years earlier when his father was killed in a freak accident at a sewage works lives with his mother, a vivacious widow who […]
Read more "Book Review – Armada by Ernest Cline"Book Review – Life Lessons from a Total Failure
I recently came across this book and thought to myself “what the hell” I’ll give it a read as I’m travelling to work at present using the tram (Metrolink). While the title conjures up images of being a “self-help” book, after reading the first few pages it was anything but and I was drawn in… […]
Read more "Book Review – Life Lessons from a Total Failure"The Tragically Hip – End of an Era?
This morning on Radio 2 I was listening to an interview of the Iranian born Broadway star Ramin Karimloo who got the song “Ahead by a century” by The Tragically Hip played on Radio 2 (Kudos to you man!!!) and he dropped the bombshell that Gordon Downie, the lead singer of The Tragically Hip played […]
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Can you remember the last time you looked up at the night sky and marvelled at the heavens above? Depending on where you live you may hardly see any stars at all let alone a dark night sky and it’s all thanks to light pollution!
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Today I learnt that one of my earliest sci-fi heroes Gareth Thomas has passed away from heart failure. While many people will remember him for portrayal of idealist & freedom fighter Roj Blake in Blakes 7, this was not his first foray into playing a sci-fi role. Back in 1976 there was an ambitious Anglo-German […]
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Time’s a funny thing… people spend their lives trying to beat time, cheat time, make it in time, turn back time (sorry Cher) you know the score. Yet no matter what you do time still marches on and catches up with you.
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Well it’s that time of year again where I take a look back at things that have taken place in my life, the world in general you know the score… In terms of blogging it’s been a bit on the quiet side. While there were some events in the “undercurrents” nothing much reached the surface. […]
Read more "Reflections on 2015"Death of a Legend… R.I.P Lemmy (1945 – 2015)
Yesterday we learnt of the death of Ian Kilmister better known as “Lemmy” of Motorhead after being diagnosed with an aggressive cancer. I didn’t know he was pushing 70 and still rocking to the end. What a way to go. My introduction to hard rock was way back in 1980 when I was still in […]
Read more "Death of a Legend… R.I.P Lemmy (1945 – 2015)"The Force Awakens… Or a journey Into Darkness…
This latest instalment in one of the highest grossing movie franchises has set fans across the internet alight with speculation as to what Disney will do with George Lucas’ blockbuster legacy.
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