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    A light-hearted what would you change if you could thread

    And home-made pickled walnuts too…
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    Diet ideas - what actually works?

    This is roughly along the lines that I followed too, although I kept at it all week, every week. Diet ideas that actually worked, for me… A couple of cookies and an espresso for breakfast, an apple for lunch. Same sort of evening meal as ever (avoiding obvious stuff like chips - but then I...
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    What are you listening to right now #64

    I’ve recently discovered this - a studio recording of Mingus in Europe from 1964 minus Johnny Coles. So Long Eric, Peggy’s Blue Skylight and a 20-odd minute Meditations. Just fantastic. The colorisation doesn’t bother me - in fact it looks more in sync and tidied up than the B+W versions out...
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    A light-hearted what would you change if you could thread

    I’d change mankind so they liked, yet didn’t misspell starngers. I’d lobby strongly to get hops added too. (Obviously every glass of wine already counts towards the daily requirement because it has grapes in it, so if the powers that be want to raise the target from 5 to 12 bring it on, I say…)...
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    Today I have mainly been v3

    I spent yesterday exhibiting a number of facets of old age. Helpful old man - A friend asked me if I could take her to the Big City Hospital for an outpatient’s appointment. No problem. Despite being overwhelmed by the sheer size of the place I managed to find the right department at the first...
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    Green and Yellow Squares (Wordle) II

    Wordle 1,006 6/6* ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Sometimes, when all you can do is keep plugging away, you realise why it’s called ‘hard mode’.
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    Tone Poet Blue Notes

    This is probably as good a place as any to announce Jason’s recent induction into the pfm bow-tie wearers club. As my piano-playing inabilities will obviously no longer be required in the club band I intend to step forward and occupy a more Bez-style role in future. Maybe an occasional...
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    Cowdenbeath hotel

    On the way you could drop in at a wee engineering gem for an unofficial cup of tea and become a Certified Keeper Of The Light. (This idea went down far better than the Chainwalk.) Edit: no you couldn’t, it doesn’t open until May 10. Another one for the future.
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    Cowdenbeath hotel

    Why don’t you stay there for the weekend and go and do the Elie Chainwalk? Right up the street of a mountaineering chappie like you. Two hours by bus - change at Kirkcaldy. See, I’ve done the hard planning bit for you… Or you could stay in the Earlsferry area overnight - probably cheaper than...
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    Silly things that amuse

    I’d probably find this email from Skoda reassuring, were I named Ian.
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    The sweet thrill of anticipating a purchase.....

    “Do you believe in the life to come?” ”Mine was always that.”
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    Christmas Wine III

    I tried a 2014. I suppose you could say ‘didn’t like’, my in-depth notes say ‘a bit meh.’
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    What are you listening to right now #64

    JR Monterose night on WKCR, presented by the wonderful Sid Gribetz. I can’t say I was aware of him before tonight which is criminal, not least because he played on Pithecanthropus Erectus. And, I’m learning, a load of other great stuff. At least I’m not alone in my ignorance - there’s been just...
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    Today I have mainly been v3

    North London Poly, yes, that was the place. I reckon if mine had been a free free jazz gig I might have attempted to cover my embarrassment by trying to pretend I was part of the band. Maybe by grabbing a ruler and dragging it boisterously along a radiator at fff moments. Or perhaps wailing...
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    Today I have mainly been v3

    In my time I have been part of an audience of two (Tarkovsky’s Stalker) and more recently one (Gravity). And I remember with a shudder going to a free jazz gig (I mean entrance was free, not the jazz) in the mid-70s at the educational establishment on Holloway Road, the current and former names...


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