Why a web site?

A place for enthusiasms, in a similar way to my too often reading out to the family bits from what I am reading , presupposing they are a) interested and b) not doing anything too important to be interrupted. This way, lots of such reading outs can happen quietly, available more conveniently than when I burst out with one of them to whoever is near.

New York, its times and other cities

March 2, 2010
Lovely few moments listening to Jim Dwyer talk about his childhood and subsequent career in journalism, all in Manhattan. His mention of Charles Snyder and ...  [read more]
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Blood, snow, oil and greed

February 23, 2010
Gave a first donation of platelets yesterday in Stoke-on-Trent. Oil level warning light in the car on the way with the accompanying message "Switch off ...  [read more]
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A sprint through some Eng and Am Lit with lunch and a church

February 12, 2010
Through Wells (Love and Mr Lewisham) and Housman ( A Shropshire Lad) in a sort of fin de siecle way on Wednesday this week and ...  [read more]
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Americana

January 31, 2010
Finding out about podcasts, how to use them, what equipment (I would say "kit" but somehow that makes me smile and squirm a bit) do ...  [read more]
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My Dracula and Other Animals

January 20, 2010
As our group all brought their reading of Bram Stoker's Dracula to the Century's End literature session today, wife Barbara was at the local hospital ...  [read more]
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