Music

• “Oi’ll give it foive”
• A tale of Dublin soul . . .
• After Fred and Ginger, they broke the mould – almost
• AKUS – just simply the best
• Are you sitting comfortably? Then I’ll begin (updated 4 Jan 2013).
• Catholic tastes in music – a challenge for a desert island castaway
• Dum-dee dum-dee dum-dee dum, dum-dee dum-dee dum dum . . .
• Fleetwood Mac – a passion (almost obsession)
• French countertenor Philippe Jaroussky sings ‘Lascia ch’io pianga’ by Handel
• Guitar heroes
• Killing me softly . . . memories maketh the man!
• Mark making tools, paper, and a steady hand
• Mr Blue Sky . . .
• Music can stir such improbable memories . . .
• Sticks and hankies – a tale of Red Stags
• Thanks to Lufthansa . . .
• The Beatles, blogs, and long-lost friends . . .
• The Beatles, Lonnie, and me . . .
• Were we that restless?
• What is the link between Jeff Lynne, Armchair Theatre, and Hobart, Tasmania?
• When is an earworm not an earworm?
• When you’ve heard one bagpipe tune, you’ve heard them both . . . (Jack Finney) – updated 7 November 2018
• While My Guitar Gently Weeps . . .
• Two’s company . . .
• The beguiling girl from Malaga
• We’ve waited four decades . . .
• What a transatlantic coincidence . . .  
• The carnival is over . . . 

Literature

• Half price books, full value history . . .
• How we speak . . .
• I’m a 19th century sort of person . . . and a Kindle convert
• I’m a Kindle virgin . . .
• It’s all relative really – why some superlatives annoy me
• Make that 20,001
• More rabbit than Sainsbury’s
• Once upon a time in Barsetshire
• Pitting my wits . . .
• What’s wrong with a rogue apostrophe or an Oxford comma?
• A cielo abierto . . .