(Cross-posted from Eine Kleine Nichtmusik)

I happened to be watching TV early yesterday morning when the news broke about Osama bin Laden's death, and I posted on Facebook that while I didn't normally celebrate anyone's death I thought I might make any exception in this case.

I don't retract it: it was genuinely what I felt, and while with a little ( Read more... )

1961 - living in Droylsden, Manchester with my parents and big brother. I was five when the census happened. We had a telephone, which was on a party line with someone a hundred yards away. A black and white TV which only got BBC (and on which all the neighbours had watched the Coronation). A mains radio and a substantial Pye transistor portable. ( Read more... )

As you will have gathered, I have largely transferred my activity over to Facebook (where most of you now seem to be in any case).

I'm also still posting on my blog Eine Kleine Nichtmusik.

I'll pop back from time to time to see what's going on.

Main status updates since last year:

1) In February 2010 my brother died
2) He died as a result of alpha- ( Read more... )

A couple of years ago I posted on the emergence of a Durham Concerto by Jon Lord, or Lord Jon of Deep Purple. In my post I was somewhat disparaging of what I remembered of his Concerto for Group and Orchestra. Well, it's humble pie time (not Humble Pie, that was a different band) because back in October Jon Lord put the concerto on in Edinburgh. It ( Read more... )

I must say I was rather horrified to see quite how long it had been since I last posted here. Facebook has a lot to answer for, I can tell you.

Anyway, Happy New Year to one and all. In Scotland the habit is to wish people HNY the first time you see them in the new year rather than as you leave them in the old one, so not only will there be much ( Read more... )

This seems appropriate to the title of my LJ:


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Describe me in one word- just one single word. Positive or negative.

Leave your word in a comment, before looking at what words others have used.

Copy and paste the meme to your journal to find out how people describe you when limited to one word.

Thanks to gauroth for this one.

As she hasn't mentioned it on LJ (and for that matter I haven't heard the delicate steam-whistle sound of Othen Affrontata) I'm prepared to bet that Gillian O has not yet read of this planned film.

But what would you call the sequel? "Fear Of The Darcy"? "Never Say Netherfield Again"? Or perhaps a sideways move to "Concussion" (tagline  'All the ( Read more... )

Genre fiction book meme (gakked from intertext)

1) Look at the list, copy and paste it into your own journal.
2) Mark those you have read however you want.
3) Feel free to tell your friends what you thought of them.

I've bolded the ones I've read, put a star beside particular favourites, and put in italics ones I've started but never finished or ( Read more... )

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