Virtual laundry basket of odd socks

Just to say that I am now blogging at  https://tallmanbaby.wordpress.com same old stuff and nonsense, but over there, rather than over here,...

When I was in third year at university, I shared a flat with a friend, and some of his friends. By accident I just discovered that one of my...

Once upon a time, towns and cities used to be for something.  So Dundee, was the city of jam jute and journalism, and Kirkcaldy was syn...

This is a posting about the search for distinctiveness and the commercial propensity to commercialise this. There has always been a taste ...

As long term readers of this blog, or my Amazon Reviews, under the impenetrable nom de plume of tallmanbaby, may be aware, I have some inter...

Emma Dent Coad was a Labour councillor from 2006, one of a frustrated handful in the Conservative controlled Kensington and Chelsea London B...

I once read a book about teaching yourself to draw, and it set out that there were three kinds of drawing an artist should practise. Fir...