You’ve read the blog, now visit the shop Jake and I went and saw a world-famous classical pianist play a selection from the works of Chopin and Schumann at the Town Hall this afternoon. He was amazing, but we still got really bored and left during the intermission. We stopped in to have a look [...]
Tagged: Photo
I talked to the animals, for a start… In case you missed it, I’ve spent the whole of the month of February on holiday. It’s been brilliant. I haven’t had time off work like that since… well, I can’t actually remember having had time off work like that before. Four weeks. Amazing. My sister asked [...]
Categories: Birmingham,Family
Tagged: holiday
I had seen part of this before – but Jake brought my attention to it this evening, and I’m really glad he did. Watch it. It’s enjoyable and it’s important.
Categories: Education
Tagged: Creativity
Toot! Toot! Another weird discovery while out riding my bike today. I was meandering along the Illshaw Heath Road out in the countryside, about 5 miles away from home, when I saw an open gate leading to what looked like an enormous paddock with a train station way off in the distance. I quickly realised [...]
Categories: 365
The advantage of having actually learned things out of books Sometimes Jake comes home from school and wants to talk about what he’s been learning. Sometimes I get the feeling that he enjoys knowing more stuff about some things than I do, and he likes the opportunity to test that theory. One of his subjects [...]
Tagged: Education, Philosophy, Photo
Yes? Can I help you? Today I rode my bike In a slightly different direction than yesterday, and here’s a slightly different farmyard animal to prove it. There’s probably a geek joke in here about MUDs and MOOs but I can’t think of one right now.
Categories: 365
Tagged: Animals, Countryside, Photo
So… why the long face? Another “what happens if I go down this road?” bit of bicycle navigation this morning, and I ended up face to face with some rather impressive and very friendly horses, standing in an enormous field of pure West Midlands mud. I suspect they were probably hungry. Can’t imagine them finding [...]
Categories: 365,Birmingham
Tagged: Animals, Countryside, Photo
This is where I spent my day today As my month-long holiday slowly draws towards a close, I’m gearing myself back up to working habits again, so today I started back on the writing. I managed a couple of thousand words on recording studio production, and it was a bit of a grind, but nowhere [...]
Categories: 365
Tagged: writing
Photo by Rickydavid I saw some live music last night, and I didn’t enjoy all of it. It was amateurish, the choices of songs were questionable and the performances ranged from poor to merely competent. It was a sort-of-not-quite-almost-open mic night, in that it was curated and hosted by someone who knew pretty much everyone, [...]
Categories: Music
Jake and John perform folk tunes to an appreciative room Jake and his friend John signed up for an open mic evening in town. One of those things where most of the people there knew most of the people there. For the most part, it wasn’t really my cup of tea, and there were some [...]
Categories: 365,Birmingham,Family,Music
Tagged: Photo
