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Morse Code

29th June 2020 Going Postal 0

Just a few of the umpteen songs I could have chosen! Apparently I’m a bit of a numpty for not making the link between “The Longest Day” and Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony! So, with June being [more…]

Wiki: “The Wrecking Crew was a loose collective of session musicians based in Los Angeles whose services were employed for thousands of studio recordings in the 1960s and 1970s, including several hundred Top 40 hits. The musicians were not publicly recognised in their [more…]

The Suit

23rd April 2020 Colin Cross 0

After much thought and many a battle with myself I’ve finally got around to completing another element in the “Twenty Five” series of writings. Maybe it’ll kick start me into finally getting on with it. [more…]

A Real Studio Experience.

17th April 2020 El Cnutador 0

As a keen guitarologist I simply love playing the electric guitar. But pressures of family life and work mean I cannot really commit to being in a band again; practice 5 times a week then [more…]

In Depth MIDI File Operations in C#

13th April 2020 honey the monster 0

Download source code from GitHub Prologue We all have a lot of time on our hands right now, and some of you cunts need to #learntocode. As such, I’m presenting content like this from time [more…]

V Discs

27th March 2020 Going Postal 0

“V” or “Victory Discs” were a development of an idea originally cooked up in 1941 by thee US Army’s Recreation and Welfare Section and the were based on the thought that recordings of military band [more…]

I Want To Break Free

31st January 2020 Going Postal 0

Featured image: Images by Eddie, Thomas Steffan, Compadre Edua’h and Carl Lender. Compilation by KPFC based on the idea of Fronteira. [CC BY-SA] Happy Brexit Day. Swiss Bob

Choons of the Season

31st December 2019 Going Postal 0

Welcome. Pour yourself a drink, and enjoy. Me, I’m nursing a Boulevardier. It’s a strapped on Negroni : ditch the gin for bourbon. One ounce Bourbon, One ounce Sweet Vermouth, one ounce Campari, straight up or on [more…]

The Holly and the Ivy

23rd December 2019 Going Postal 0

The words of the carol occur in three broadsides published in Birmingham in the early nineteenth century. An early mention of the carol’s title occurs in William Hone’s 1823 work Ancient Mysteries Described, which includes [more…]

Confronting The Climate Emergency, Part 2

25th June 2019 0

Tasked with heading the challenge of confronting the declared CLIMATE EMERGENCY, Councillors and politicians throughout the land and all over the world are sounding the alarm bells and preaching to the people: WE MUST ACT [more...]
The Great Confinement

15th April 2020 0

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. C.S. Lewis Greetings [more...]
Ben Elton

9th October 2019 0

I used to enjoy Ben Elton – for The Young Ones, and two of his jokes I still can remember. I even bought his first book, ‘Stark’. He’s making a comeback stand-up tour, I gather. [more...]
Postcard from Lille, Part 37

2nd November 2019 0

‘There must be a better way to live than this’, I observe, ‘the squabbling, the pettiness, the violence. Why can’t we all just get on with each other and live in peace and harmony?’, I wonder [more...]
Lent & the 40 Days in the Old and New Testaments

22nd March 2020 0

In continuing my series of articles on the striking consistencies of theme and message within the Old and New Testaments, it seems apt not to discuss Lent and Jesus’ Forty Days in the Wilderness which [more...]