Unthought of, though, somehow

Whoever it was that said time passes more quickly the older you get was bang on the money. In October I'll have been living in this plac...

60 years ago today - the fifth of my annual birthday portraits in front of the family radiogram. This morning you find your roving reporter ...

Tomorrow it'll be exactly 60 years since this photo was taken. It's the second in a series of annual birthday portraits taken of me ...

A group of us at work who were due to celebrate a milestone birthday or anniversary last year, came to an informal agreement when it became ...

Today I turn 60. Excuse me for a moment while I double check those numbers.....60. Shit. Yes, I'm definitely 60. If the world wasn...

After deciding that I was going to travel to Nottingham and join in the fun at John and Bright Ambassador's inaugural Sunday Vinyl Sessi...

On Monday evening I stood towards the back of a small Norwich venue as Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs hurled their splendidly unholy rac...

Today is a milestone birthday for Mrs S. She sees it as a very big milestone, though of course from my aged perspective it's just a mo...

I'm writing a little ahead of time, but, all being well, by the time you read this Mrs S & I will be enjoying a short break in deep...

To celebrate Terry Hall's 59th birthday, here's a great clip of him covering 'Sorrow' in 2014, with the assistance of fri...

Somehow, don't ask me exactly how it happened, I seem to have reached the grand old age of 57. Last time I checked, I could've sw...

Soon after discovering the joys of Adnams beer at the tender age of 20, my pals and I pledged to make a group pilgrimage to Southwold (home ...

Here I am, blowing out the candles on my birthday cake in 1966. There'll be no candles today though, it's too much of a fire risk...

He was the engine room of the only band that mattered and his beats have been sampled almost as much as those of James Browns' funky ...

Bob Dylan put in a mighty fine performance of 'The Night We Called It a Day' on the penultimate David Letterman show last wee...

55 songs in 55 days - one for every year of my life...so far.  This whole shebang started on a whim. A few tunes, each with an attach...

In just a few hours, I'll greet Mrs S with the same phrase my Nan used every year, when I was a kid, on the morning of my birthday. ...

On this day, a couple of years ago, I shared a handful of childhood photos of yours truly, plonked in front of the family radiogram (origina...

To ensure a healthy appetite for my birthday pub lunch yesterday, Mrs S and I first took a long walk on a wild and windy stretch of coas...

In addition to the family tradition of the radiogram photo , every year on my birthday Dad did his best to capture my puffed cheeks as I ble...