Greatest Hits

  • Monday Long Song
    As we turn the corner of the year, I find that I've already posted on, and generally interacted with, this little corner of the internet...
  • Anne Briggs
    Our mutual chum Charity Chic is without equal when it comes to sniffing out quality CDs from the piles of dross usually found in the dar...
  • Old (in) New York
    60 years ago today - the fifth of my annual birthday portraits in front of the family radiogram. This morning you find your roving reporter ...
  • Ten Years Gone
    Dad & I, 1961 When I was very young, Dad seemed to be constantly decorating in some part of the house and whenever he decorated, ou...
  • Mum's Last Gift
    The first gift my Mum ever gave me was in April 1960 - it was of course the gift of life. Exactly 50 years later, her last gift to me was...