I have a lot of public profiles on the internet, and for obvious reasons, many of them mention that I work at UCE Birmingham. Unfortunately, that’s not the case anymore. I haven’t been fired or found a new job — the university has simply changed its name. From tomorrow, UCE Birmingham will be Birmingham City [...]
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Tagged: Internet, University
After dinner last night, Bobbie and I went with Sam to see Alice Russell live at the Hare and Hounds in Kings Heath. Great venue for live music, by the way. Alice Russell’s an amazing soul/funk vocalist and, among other things, fronts the Quantic Soul Orchestra. We left Jake at home with his friends Ethan [...]
A long while back, I signed up with Twitter. It was new and I’m always curious to find out about new things. If you haven’t encountered it, it’s a bit like the Facebook update thing: ‘What are you doing now?’. You type in a short message of up to 140 characters that lets people know [...]
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I mentioned the other day that I’d had a drink with my friend Clutch – and that we’d discovered a Glenfiddich Toasted Oak limited edition that we quickly became quite fond of… Well, it being payday yesterday, there was a grocery shopping expedition at Tesco (it’s convenient, all right? Where’s the Waitrose near here?), where [...]
Categories: Whisky
Tagged: Whisky
A new world record was set today (28 September), with a bottle of whisky selling at auction for a remarkable £29,400. The Bowmore single malt whisky is the oldest bottle of Bowmore known to be in existence and is believed to have been bottled on Islay around 1850 by W & J Mutter. It was [...]
Categories: Whisky
Tagged: Whisky
It’s not so much a question of ‘what should I write about?’ as it is ‘where should I start?’. It’s been a week of change and activity this week. Some stuff I’m not even allowed to talk about yet, so you can imagine how significant those changes could be. What I can tell you is [...]
Categories: Whisky
Tagged: Personal, University, Whisky
On one of my my old blogs, back in April, I ran a post about a New Zealand band I really like called The Enright House. You might have seen it. Mark from the band dropped me an email today to let me know that they have a video for the single Darkwave=MC Squared, which [...]
Categories: Music
Tagged: Music
Doesn’t hurt to ask… A couple of months back, I started a blog about whisky. I don’t really know very much about the stuff, except that I’ve grown to quite like it and it’s a really interesting and complex subject that combines history, geography, science, economics, folklore and sociology. And while I don’t drink it [...]
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Tagged: Whisky
Birthday cake, modelled on the dimensions of a competition pool table Turning 40 has been brought to you by Veronica Holdings, radio and television broadcasters, and publishers of the Netherland’s most popular magazine. My birthday in Amsterdam was pretty much spectacular. Everything had been arranged in advance by phone and email, but I really had [...]
Categories: Travel
When the weather starts to turn cold and summer is truly at an end, the wasps arrive. Usually they hang out in our lobby for a bit and then die. It’s not entirely unusual to see a swarm of them outside our building looking for places to get in. Like moths, they head for the [...]
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