A trip to Chicago with Beth
November 28, 2010
First long conversation in Chicago was on the El from O'Hare to Monroe in the Loop, as the passenger behind us turned out to be ... [read more]
A sunny kind of day
November 10, 2010
One week to my Chicago trip with Beth, starting with a train journey to Brighton next Wednesday, then Heathrow Thursday. Resurrected big red quilted coat yesterday ... [read more]
Mussorgsky, Faulkner and friends
October 31, 2010
What a great piece of music Mussorgsky's The Great Gate of Kiev is. Just borrowed the Pictures from an Exhibition CD from the library and ... [read more]
Conversation, film, books, the internet, and other media
October 6, 2010
Sat on a bench resting in the October sunshine yesterday after a short bike ride up Merelake Way - an old railway track - in Alsager. Talked ... [read more]
Keeping up or things fall apart
September 16, 2010
Today a man who is paid £168,000 a year offered to get me a cup of coffee off the buffet table at the NHS Foundation ... [read more]