grumpyf1

You've got the idea now, right? By June, I was doing a few days of work here and there, but mostly still furloughed. As the lockdown started to unlock a bit, there was more opportunity to get out and about so... I mostly didn't. Sure, it was nice to be able to do so when I wanted to, but on my own? Yawwwwwwn. I'm not great company for myself. I did get a few long, solo, walks but being in a valley everything is up and I'm broadly exertion-averse, even though I really enjoy it when I'm out there. It's that initial motivation that's tricky. But you didn't come here to read about my intrinsic inability to go and do exercise did you? (Even if the prospect of getting a glimpse into the strange inner workings of my mind and understanding how I can enjoy something but not want to do it can simultaneously exist without my mind exploding is tantalizing.) So sit back, relax, and prepare to be mildly puzzle by what I read, watched and listened to in the month they...

Mike Oldfield is brilliant. I make no apologies for saying that. Mad as a box of frogs, he's produced some of my favourite music of all time. Spotted a tweet the other day about a new version of "Guilty" from a forthcoming album called "Tubular Beats", coming out in February. Wow - can't quite make my mind up - brilliant, or terrifying? Will have to play it a few more times. I think I might like the album though. I (unlike just about everyone else) quite like a good remix/remake...