Dr. Strangelove – or how I can’t stop analyizing and just enjoy the journey instead.

I was on the phone to my seventeen year old son who was laughing at me. Not that unusual a scenario for us I have to say. We were discussing Dune (the most recent movie version of the Frank Herbert novels), it’s a film that he loves visually and thematically. I still really like the …

Damocles

The black blade of fear hangs over my head. Hanging by a thread, I feel the tension and tense for the parting of strands. No breeze to stir it, take it arcing away from my brow, The crown of blood a must at some point unknown. Where did it come from, Why can’t I move? …

Lockdown (not my usual ramble, more of a mental snap shot.)

Everyone has had to change the way they live over the course of the last year or so. I know it’s been harder on some than others, I know it’s had more impact on some than others, but it’s been a strange and difficult year for most of us. Some people have revelled in it …

Robin Beck (First Time)

A Shoddy Potted History of the Late 20th Century, Or How I grew up not loving Cereal. So, on the eve of my 21st wedding anniversary, and two weeks away from our eldest leaving home to start his University education a three-and-a-half-hour drive away, I got to thinking about life – as you do. It …

Semi-Unskinny-Prime (or welcome to overthinking)

So I have to do another little piece about music but don’t worry, it’s not going to be a repeat of last time. It starts a little strangely, I got up this morning and inexplicably had a Stevie Wonder song wandering around in my brain. But me being me, this led to thinking about the …

I was dreaming when I wrote this so sue me if I….What did I mean to say?

The human brain is an absolute scunner. If you’re not sure what scunner means, it’s a Scottish word for a numpty. If you’re not sure what a numpty is, see scunner. Right about now you’re probably feeling scunnered and we’re only at the first paragraph. Anyway, the reason I got thinking about the brain being …

The Difficult Second Album.

It was intense enough to be stressful. A feeling that was at once both enjoyable but also mind blowing. It wasn’t like anything else that had happened before but strangely enough it wasn’t the first time it had happened (and it would happen again with some regularity). I was eighteen years old and had just …

My First Blog Post

Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken. — Oscar Wilde. This is the first post on my new blog. I’m just getting this new blog going, so stay tuned for more. Subscribe below to get notified when I post new updates.

About me?

Well, what do you need to know? I guess I am the wrong side of forty, separated with kids who are rapidly becoming taller than me, somewhat grumpy, possibly outspoken? no, not really. Mostly I just want to take a slightly humourous and possibly mildly sarcastic swipe at life in general. Nothing too serious, just …