How on earth can it possibly be the first of February already? What's happening? Many years ago, I remember my elders talking of how time seemed to speed up as they got older. Now I'm experiencing that phenomenon first hand, and I can't say that I'm particularly thrilled with the experience. We live close to … Continue reading Febalready.
With apologies to Joseph J. Sullivan. I don't know what prompted me, I don't usually get all fired up and political, but a couple of days ago I started to "write" this version of the song "Where did you get that hat?", in my head. I'd done the first verse, more or less, then I … Continue reading Where did you get that hat?
It's Saturday, September 20th, 2025, I'm in Łódź and today I'm off to the Włocławek Rock Festival. Outside the sky is blue and there is a warmth in the air. I went out for a short "walk around the block" before breakfast. The streets of Łódź are very much in a grid layout in this … Continue reading Łódź, Włocławek, Łódź, Poznań, Łódź. Part 2.
My mother bought me this this Circle of Friends candle holder for my birthday, many years ago now. When I picked up the package it was wrapped in, I heard a faint chinking sound which only served to pique my curiosity as to what could be inside. When I opened the package however, I found … Continue reading Pagan tribal.
It's not you, it's me…I just haven't been in a writing mood lately, there you have it, sad but true. Anyway, let's go back to September, shall we? I'm catching the 10:00 Metropolitan Line train out of Chesham to get to Liverpool Street station and thence to Stanstead Airport to board a flight to the … Continue reading Łódź, Włocławek, Łódź, Poznań, Łódź. Part 1.
It's been a while since I was in Poland, a country that I had come to regard as a sort of second home, not that I'd been living in the country, but I just felt at home when I was there. I'd started going to Poland to attend concerts and continued to go to attend … Continue reading Powrót do Polski.
There's a curious little TV channel called "That’s TV 3" and as you may imagine it's one of a number of channels in the "That’s TV" range, which bills itself as "THE HOME OF ICONIC TV" (the capitalisation is all theirs) but here in lowly Chesham the Freeview multiplex chooses to offer only That's TV … Continue reading Guilty pleasures, an occasional series. Dan Hill: Sometimes When We Touch.
In 1975 a crack commando unit was sent home from school into a world for which they weren't ready. These men promptly established a maximum-security stockade somewhere on Berkhamsted Common. Today, still battling the odds, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help and if you … Continue reading The FCA. Truth, Justice, and a Decent Cup of Tea.
I remember being at work in an age before we used computers. Not an age before there were computers, which had come into being sometime in the early to mid twentieth century, but definitely a time before they were used in the ubiquitous manner that they are today. I'd had a computer in the early … Continue reading Negative! Primitive! Limited!
You remember back in December 2024 when I wrote about how I was, against all logic, hosting a weekly show on a Polish internet radio station? No? Well, let me reiterate… I was invited by my friend Krzysiek to "present" a weekly, one hour show via the servers of Pro-Radio, an internet radio station based … Continue reading Czasy Radia.
A Point of Views, A Polish Odyssey, and Other Stories. 