BBC2 have seemingly got the rights to a whole batch of 30s and 40s RKO movies that they’ve been showing on weekend mornings at ungodly hours like 6am. Hurrah for Tivo. I like studio system movies. I like the similarities…
There are never enough courgette recipes to use the inevitable glut that occurs if you grow your own. This one is adapted from a recipe my mum gave me. It’s moist, keeps well, freezes well and is damned tasty (especially…
Busy times here. We’ve jammed with a double bassist, and gigged with a trumpeter. Both rocked. My ambition of dancing boys feels lies it might be growing closer. Adding musicians makes everything much more fun. We’ve written a few new…
I watched my neighbour plant out her raised beds. I think that’s what she was doing, in the hat and scarf and gloves. It’s the right time of year for it, but not the right sort of weather. I watched…
I have been doing lots of cooking. Thus I have broken/damaged: 1. My bloody whizzer. It lives by the cooker for easy access, and the damned thing fell over onto a hot hob which melted a 1p-sized hole in it.…
It’s been a Gloomy Sunday (although not gloomy enough for the suicidal connotations of that song, admittedly) and I’ve been home alone again. Much as I like my own company, in the same way one gets tired of spending too…
View From The Basement 