Monday Music 18 – 2017

Last week’s news was all about the new appointment of Jodie Whittaker to the role of the Doctor.  So, for this week’s Monday music I decided to celebrate some of the great women who have stepped into roles which were initially written for men.  Some have attracted more controversy than others but they have all […]

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Top 10 Ray Harryhausen monsters

I grew up watching films like Valley of Gwangi and The 7th Voyage of Sinbad. The standout feature of films like these were not the acting or the script but the wonderful monsters that terrorised the protagonists.  These monsters were almost all created by master animator, Ray Harryhausen.  There were no computers back then. It […]

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S is for Serena

I feel a bit strange doing this one.  I’ve promised to show her before I hit Publish because I don’t want to embarrass her.  I struggled with thinking about what I was going to write and then it came to me. When I popped the question (all the way back in 2011) as we bobbed […]

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Update: Doctor and Book Doctor

Hey everyone, It’s been a week since I wrote anything.  If I haven’t been ill, I’ve been proof-reading reports for school or other such tasks.  I do have a couple of things to update you about, though.  One of them is particularly thrilling (for me anyway). No, I haven’t finished my Star Trek article for […]

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Monday Music 17 – 2017

Today, I reached the midway point in the new series of Twin Peaks. I’m still loving every minute of it and this week’s Monday Music post, I decided to dedicate to some of the music we’ve been hearing on the show.  It’s great to hear Angelo Badalamenti’s work more and more as we move through […]

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R is for Right Trigger

ZX Spectrum 48k. That was my first experience of a home computer: rubber keys and all. When Dad brought it home and unwrapped it, I entered a new world of entertainment. Granted, that world was made up of some weird game called Biorhythms where you controlled the population of foxes, rabbits and plants (seriously, I […]

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Monday Music 16 – 2017

Monday’s nearly done and I’m pretty tired. Happy to have finished my Q is for Quest post this evening.  Here’s a nice piece of music from a great film from the first half of the 1990s: Last of the Mohicans. Loved this at the cinema. It’s a great adventure with a strong central relationship at its heart. […]

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Q is for Quest

 “Treat the earth well: It was not given to you by your parents, It was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children.” –Ancient Native American Proverb Featured image credit to Jeremy Bolwell, image courtesy of Geograph.org.uk.  Other images from Gareth James […]

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P is for a Polish Wedding

I was honoured, at the beginning of the month, to be invited to a wedding in Poland.  It was the last of my close friends to tie the knot and the wife and I, accompanied by the boy, made the trip across Europe to attend.  It was our first trip to eastern Europe.  Actually, it […]

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