Unthought of, though, somehow

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

In May 1994 I flew to New York for the third time to stay with my cousin and her husband. In later years whenever a trip to the Big Apple wa...

You may be familiar with Anish Kapoor's 2006 sculpture Cloud Gate, situated in Millennium Park, Chicago. Due to its shape, the huge refl...

While there was a conspicuous lack of interesting gigs during my visit to New York in March, I did have a few cultural bits and bobs set in ...

Dad would've loved to have visited New York. He had a life long fascination with the city and would no doubt have spent hours walking it...

In early 1996, a few weeks before I was due to visit her in New York, my cousin managed to reserve me a ticket for a recording of  Conan O...

A few weeks ago ( here ) I shared a photo taken beneath the Queensboro Bridge on Roosevelt Island. My cousin had bagged that particular day ...

According to Ol' Blue Eyes, New York is the city that never sleeps and that's a pretty accurate description, for the most part at le...

Today's photo was taken on Roosevelt Island, beneath the Queensboro Bridge (known colloquially as the 59th Street Bridge....if you'r...

For my 60th birthday in April 2020, I was scheduled to make a long overdue return visit to New York City, the flight a present from my cousi...

One of the fringe benefits of staying with a relative whilst on holiday, is that one doesn't have to cart unnecessary luggage halfway ar...

So my trusty Google calendar reminds me that today I should be returning to work following a two week stay in the Big Apple. The original ar...

I honestly don't know where it all comes from. Just over a week ago a 72 hour bug temporarily knocked the stuffing out of me, but tha...

My cousin's mother-in-law died back in January at the age of 83. In a full life she'd been a wife, mother, grandmother, college prof...

In May 1994, I spent 10 days visiting the American based contingent of the family in New York. At that time, before they had any kids, ...

A recent post over at the ever wonderful Sun Dried Sparrows reminded me of the time I was browsing in an achingly (and I really mean a...

It became a little ritual of mine that, on the final evening of a visit to my relatives in New York, I would spend a couple of hours at ...

In New York on one of my occasional Stateside trips to visit relatives, I was walking on The Bowery one balmy evening in 2005, zigza...

In a previous life I spent 21 years working in record/CD shops, 7 for a small East Anglian chain & 14 at my own little store, so the en...