Jim’s prompt for this week is ‘unrealised potential’. It seems to me that there are two broad reasons why the potential of an artiste or artistes could remain unrealised. Thus a band can break up because of ‘artistic differences’, which can be a polite euphemism for a clash of egos, often leading to the disappointing…
Surely not…. What is a winklepicker? Just your average adolescent male. What is a pipsqueak? Someone with great expectations. What is a beatnik? Cool. Man. What is a sequin? A septet with two absent members. What is spiel? A kitchen utensil designed to prepare vegetables noiselessly. What is asphalt? A long, hard road. What is…
From 2013, a report on my first year of retirement… Another year older… My Countdown To An Event app – which is now functioning as a Countup – tells me that, as of 2 p.m. European Summer Time on September 27th, I have been retired for exactly one year. Not that I’d forgotten. It’s interesting…
I’ve been aware for some time that it’s been too long (last October, in fact) since I featured Leonard Cohen in my Song Lyric Sunday offerings, so when I saw that the prompt for this week was to feature a song from an album written entirely by the recording artiste(s), there was no question who…
From ten years ago, a stark warning of the dangers of leaving home for any length of time… The Unkindest Cut You may not even have noticed – and I wouldn’t pretend or presume that, in the great scheme of things, it makes any difference whether you have or not – but of late there’s not been…
Uh Oh…..oh oh oh Oxymoron Military intelligence Ooky The general mien of the Addams family. Oodleplex The state of being confused by many things at once. Obfuscate To (not) answer a simple question in the manner of a politician. Obstreporous Wot you looking at? Oddsock A truly irritating wardrobe affectation. Orzo Sorry, but I was…
I confess to having been a little bamboozled when I saw that the prompt for this week’s Song Lyric Sunday called for a song from a ‘Super Band’. That’s not an expression I’m familiar with. However, a little exploration showed that it’s an alternative (American?) description of what would be more commonly described over here…
Panto auditions: NB – responses are very UK-centric, but then so’s Panto (oh no it isn’t!). Widow Twanky Brendan O’Carroll Buttons Austin Reed Cinders Leslie Ash The Beast Mark Labbett Gru Donald Pleasence Cruella de Vil Suella Braverman The Fairy Godmother Julian Clary Abanazar The Great Soprendo Carabosse Lily Savage King Rat Nigel Farage Fibbing…
From 2013, a meditation on my love/hate relationship with technology… Kit Despite my well-documented inability to get to grips with technology (defined as basically anything invented since the Stone Age), I still have the inherent Y-chromosome marker for ‘kit’. Sadly, though, this thing I have going on with technology is a classic love/hate relationship. I…
This week, Jim has challenged us to showcase a song containing either ‘Yesterday’, ‘Today’ or ‘Tomorrow’ in its title or lyrics. I will by no means be the only one whose first thought was Paul McCartney’s ‘Yesterday’: it’s a bit obvious, though. The Beatles’ ‘Tomorrow Never Knows’ is there too, although I’ve already deployed it…
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