This blog is closing. It’s the end of the line. There will be no more. Not here. This is the last post. Feel free to pause reading for a moment while you open up Apple Music or Spotify to play the lonesome bugler doing his thing. Ok, you back? Let’s continue. Why has it come … Continue reading Closed for Business
Politics 2026 in the United Kingdom. Where are we at? To summarise: we have a far-right populist who is tellling his fanbase, the rich and the racist, exactly what they want to hear. He’s not afraid of upsetting people, although his recent success means he is at least trying to pretend that he didn’t spend … Continue reading Politics 2026
I keep my photos pretty well organised throughout the year, processing them, adding them to folders, labelling them. A lot of the hardwork on my Fuji photos is done through Lightroom. Then they’re exported to Apple Photos to go live with the iPhone photos. And at the end of the year I do three things. … Continue reading Best of 2025
Take my good wishes anyway you choose to. If you believe in a make-believe invisible sky person, then I hope you are having a marvellous time pretending that he is the cause of your merriment, even though it’s clearly a political/corporate decision as to whether you’ve got the day off. Merry Christmas! If you’re more … Continue reading Merry Decembermas
I do enjoy a mid-week matinee in the West End. Has to be a matinee, it’s a near two hour train ride in and another two hours back again. Plays rather than musicals, although there are worthy exceptions. And the venue is as much a part of the day out as the production itself. Those … Continue reading Soho Place
In 2009 I watched a fabulous BBC series starring Stephen Fry and Mark Carwardine. It was called Last Chance to See, a follow-up to a BBC radio series 20 years earlier when Douglas Adams (of Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy fame) and Carwardine had sought out a number of animals teetering on the brink of … Continue reading Last Chance to See
We had low expectations of Jakarta. Expectations which were largely met. It’s a giant city crammed with millions of people but with little soul. There’s the National Monument roughly in the centre, which you can go to the top of for the worst view of Jakarta possible, because you can’t see the National Monument. In … Continue reading Jakarta
There’s a lot of phrases relating stress to physical weight. And I can now tell you how much weight is required for something to become a stressful event. It’s 7.1+kgs. Allow me to explain. I booked our flights to and from Indonesia with Etihad. They had two selling points that trumped all other options. Price. … Continue reading The Etihad Experience
My annual ‘I Win’ post has had to be adapted this year. Fortunately, the adaptation is due to it being a couple of weeks late, rather than this being the year that ‘I Lost’. I’m hoping to keep the ‘I Lost’ post at bay for many years yet. So ‘I Win’ for 2025 is ‘I … Continue reading I Won: 53rd Edition
Bournemouth is, by British standards, a relatively new town. It celebrated its bicentenary in 2010 just as my other home, Mexico, was celebrating its own Bicentenario, So the list of great and good that have called Bournemouth home isn’t as lengthy as many other towns and cities. But what Bournemouth lacks in quantity, it more … Continue reading Jane. Of Bournemouth.
The Mexile 