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Aug

25

Bookcrossing

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One of the finest innovations this year has been, to my mind, bookcrossing, the idea of which is to share books. By abandoning them. And then letting people know, on the Bookcrossing site, that you’ve done this. So far I’ve obtained a couple or three books from the Brew Coffee Shop on Lune Street but [...]

Aug

25

Coincidence?

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My nearest blogger, according to the BlogMap above, shares two traits with me. He is a methodist (small ‘m’ as he’s free, one day I shall understand the difference) and his name, like mine, is easily searchable.

Aug

25

A photographic picture of Britain

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The Geograph British Isles project aims to collect a geographically representative photograph for every square kilometre of the British Isles and you can be part of it. It’s an interesting idea but it’s clearly got a long way to go.

Aug

25

Our photographs

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Both Kate and I enjoy photography, almost exclusively using 35mm slide or black-and-white film which we then scan. We have uploaded many of our recent pictures to Flickr.

Aug

25

iPod DAB radio

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Various people have criticised the iPod because it doesn’t include an FM radio. To my mind, that’s like criticising a walkman for not including short wave. For pity’s sake, folks, life has moved on. Sarcasm aside, I haven’t chosen to listen to FM radio for the best part of two years. These days, I listen [...]

Aug

25

iPod, therefore I listen…

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No gadget has had such a profound effect on my listening habits than the iPod. Mine is one of those music collections in which tracks get lost, sometimes for years at a time. Since my iPod arrived, I have been travelling to work listening to a radio station that appears to mirror my musical tastes [...]

Aug

25

DVDs

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I’ve been rather a fan of films and, more particularly, the cinema for longer than I can really remember. When I bought my OnDigital box (back in the days when the things cost something like £250!) the clincher was FilmFour, a channel which promised a wide variety of English-language and foreign-language films. Sadly, we never [...]

Aug

25

Is this man Britain’s finest author?

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I shall not name the pompous fool of an English teacher at Westcliff High School for Boys who worked so hard to persuade me that reading really was a terribly dull pastime by extolling the wonders of the Julie Christie / Terence Stamp version of Far from the Madding Crowd and 1970s BBC Shakespeare over, [...]