by Neil | Jul 23, 2011 | Comment
Over the years have blogging I have, on occasion, poked fun at the late Amy Winehouse. In view of today’s sad news, I have removed those posts from the archive of the old blog and any references here. I have not done this to hide those posts but because the...
by Neil | May 20, 2011 | Comment, Diary, London
Social media bleeds into meatspace far too often in London. Try as I do, I still fall foul of the repeated error, usually on my way into work half asleep, of seeing people I know through either twitter or blogging and reacting as if I know them in the real world when...
by Neil | May 2, 2011 | Comment, Media, Politics, Press commentary
In the flurry of things we had on I’d planned my next post to be a short, throwaway post showing the Sex Pistols’ Anarchy In The UK to mark Friday’s events. It wasn’t big or clever. But it seemed a good antidote to the uncomfortable Royalist...
by Neil | Apr 20, 2011 | childhood, Comment
Sad news doing the rounds on Twitter and the blogosphere: Elisabeth Sladen, who played Sarah Jane on Doctor Who and the Sarah Jane Adventures, has passed away at age 63 from cancer. I’ve been a fan of Doctor Who since I was very small. Some of my earliest...
by Neil | Dec 31, 2010 | Books, Comment, Fantasy, Horror, Reading, Review, Science Fiction
This is the first Christmas for the self hosted version of my blog. As was customary on my old internet home, I’d like to take some time to draw your attention to the books I particularly enjoyed reading this year and, looking back, I’m surprised how much...
by Neil | Dec 20, 2010 | Comment, Diary, London
The snow has ripped a hole through the last full working week of the year in London. Trains, planes and roads are all messed up with the end result that the great Christmas exodus from the capital seems to have started early. Every year, the last two or three days...
