by Adrian | Sep 11, 2019 | Blog, Musings
No, this isn’t going to be a post about old nursery-rhyme songs, Winston Smith, Mr Charrington and 1984, apposite as that might be when it comes to current times and trends in UK and US politics. Instead, it’s a reference to a poem by Longfellow, entitled...
by Adrian | Sep 10, 2019 | Blog, Musings
It’s a good rule of thumb, reading the small print. Taking out a mortgage? Signing the employment contract for your new, executive suite, highly-paid job? Signing your multi-million pound major label record deal or assigning the Hollywood film rights to your...
by Adrian | Aug 28, 2019 | Blog, Musings
Ah, Facebook. That dodgy doyen of data miners. The pernicious paragon of privacy invaders. The appalling accomplice of advert slingers. We all know what Facebook is like but, at some point, we’ve decided “Oh well, it’s useful for keeping in touch...
by Adrian | Sep 5, 2016 | Blog, Musings
If I were to dig out all of the old posts that used to be on this blog, you would find a distinct pattern emerging. It’s probably best described as extended periods of silence, punctuated by occasional short bursts of activity. In fact, it got so bad at one...
by Adrian | Aug 30, 2016 | Musings, Words
I still seem to be stuck in poetry mode at the moment, although these little verses came about in a slightly different fashion. It’s all Facebook’s fault. Well, actually, that’s not quite true, it’s all a guy called Phil McMenemy’s...
by Adrian | Aug 29, 2016 | Musings, Words
When you’re on a roll, you’re on a roll. Yet another poem. This one isn’t dark, it isn’t angsty and it isn’t an airy-fairy exercise in writing some particular form or other, it’s just a poem. I suppose it might be in ballad...
