A long time ago I wrote a post about myself in which I coined the term "Music Deaf" to describe me. I described being music deaf was akin to being colour blind. Colour blind people can see colours but not distinguish between them. I can hear music but not get any emotional response from it. I pondered whether this was a real condition ( Read more... )

Welcome to 2015 or quarter past eight. I suspect its going to be an odd year. But then 2014 was an even year and we normally do get odd years soon after even years ( Read more... )

The post title is a classic cliché. But what about three wrongs, would that make a right. I don't think so.

As people may have heard Sony recently made a film "The Interview" starring Seth Rogen and James Franco. In my opinion that's the first wrong. Not because of the "free speech" but because the movie is deliberately insulting. I'll admit to ( Read more... )

So at the weekend forestgreenivy and I went to see the movie The Imitation Game which is a Bio-Pic based on the life of Alan Turing.

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I heard today that the cast for the new James Bond movie has been announced and once again Daniel Craig will be taking the part of Bond. This is incredibly disappointing, not because I don’t think Daniel is good in the role because I’ve enjoyed his other three appearances as Bond. But it shows that once again the studio has overlooked me for the ( Read more... )

Yesterday forestgreenivy and I were in the car driving on a motorway. The weather was slightly foggy and it was raining causing spray from the road and making the road wet. There was relatively little traffic and i was in the middle lane looking to overtake a car on the inside land who was 20 or so metres in front of me ( Read more... )

I thought I’d give my opinion following the end of the first season of Peter Capaldi’s role as The Doctor. As people may recall I wrote up a review following seeing his first episode, at that time I thought the show had a reasonable but not brilliant start, but I was concerned about the Missy character and whether that would be a good underlying ( Read more... )

I was talking with my wife, forestgreenivy, about a difference between US and UK sports. Not the games themselves, or indeed the rules of those games, but the way the sports are organised ( Read more... )

Ok, this shouldn't be too tricky for the less mathematically inclined.

So here we go.

What is 7+1?

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So after a long bitter campaign Scotland votes “No” to Independence. Clearly this is good news for animal lovers everywhere. It’s my belief that everyone who voted No did so because they believe the Westminster government will now give them all a Pony. Clearly the Yes voters knew they would get a Pony if they voted No, but hate all animals so chose ( Read more... )