For reasons unknown, I am feeling a little melancholy today… I always find that Skeeter Davis is absolutely marvellous listening material for these kind of days. She is, of course, most widely known for ‘The End Of The World’: … and a slightly rarer recording from 1963 In one of those strange twists of the […]
The Houghton Weavers
Today, I am really embracing my northern roots, and have spent most of the morning listening to an old favourite band of mine, The Houghton Weavers. The Houghton Weavers are an English folk music band formed in 1975 in Westhoughton, in the borough of Bolton in Lancashire, England. The current three band members are David […]
#iPodFail!
This morning my iPod seems to have turned evil! (yes, I did just adjust my photo using MS Paint…! Well…someone still has to be the one to use it! :P) Whilst singing along rather wildly to Wicked’s “Defying Gravity” in my head, I promptly slipped and nearly fell into the gap between the train and […]
Celebrity Apprentice (USA) 2010
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again – Celebrity Apprentice USA is my favourite incarnation of the Apprentice formats (shortly followed by the UK version, and the ‘normal’ US version trailing behind). The line-up for 2010 was announced back on 19th October 2009 (series filmed Oct-Nov ’09), and NBC recently announced that it […]
Stand up and be counted…
In 2011, the Office of National Statistics will be conducting a national census to profile the population of the United Kingdom. According to current plans, the census will not include any questions on sexual identity. The Equalities & Human Rights Commission is calling for the inclusion of a question on sexual orientation to measure, for […]
Gari Wellingham 