I have learnt a lot through my ME/ fibromyalgia (described at length in yesterday’s post https://fivemilesout.home.blog/2020/11/28/got-a-secret-in-plain-sight/ ). Some of it not even related to the condition. Dr Berkovitz talked at length about the brain being an organ like any other in the body. Yet if something goes wrong with the brain people view it inContinue reading “And pull the trigger I’ll be Dead”
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Got a secret in plain sight
Dad and I went to Italy in the summer of 2015 and I hoped that would mark the end of my glandular fever problems. I was still weaker than normal, but it was 16 days of Sun and art. It wasn’t to be. Due to circumstances I ended up as Acting Principal for most ofContinue reading “Got a secret in plain sight”
War In Heaven
Some people did not like the Doctor Who New Adventures (https://fivemilesout.home.blog/2020/11/01/lets-all-meet-up-in-the-year-2000/ ) claiming that they were not in the spirit of the program or that the plotlines were too complicated. I think Virgin books got it right as you cannot sustain a book series on a monster of the month in a novel with aContinue reading “War In Heaven”
I saw the writing on the wall
A lot of people complain that the modern world isn’t as good as the one they grew up. People want simple verities that are gone and we are not bound together as a country the way we were. The proliferation of television channels and then the ability to watch anything when we want means thatContinue reading “I saw the writing on the wall”
I see a shadow and call out to try and warn him
I have mixed feelings about Madness. They started out with some really great ska tracks like One Step Beyond and Night Boat To Cairo (which were part of a ska resurgence at the turn of the 70s into the 80s). Baggy Trousers struck a chord with all children of school age when it came outContinue reading “I see a shadow and call out to try and warn him”
It Makes Me Feel Like Crying
Straightaway it is another song produced by Phil Spector and the legendary Wall of Sound, like yesterday’s entry https://fivemilesout.home.blog/2020/11/23/ill-give-you-three/ . Dad and I toured Italy for 16 days in 2015. I was recovering from glandular fever, him from cancer. After Venice we spent a morning in Pisa looking at the Leaning Tower and the otherContinue reading “It Makes Me Feel Like Crying”
I’ll Give You Three
No one really talks about Moonlighting anymore. It wasn’t such a big deal in the UK at the time as BBC and ITV mostly ignored overseas product (Dallas and Dynasty being big exceptions), partly due to agreements with the acting union Equity. Moonlighting was on BBC2 and starred famous (but not seen for a while)Continue reading “I’ll Give You Three”
I just knew
I like Only Fools and Horses (OFAH). Not the best sitcom ever as the British public voted it, not by any means, I mean better than Fawlty Towers or Blackadder? Hell, it’s not even John Sullivan’s best comedy – in fact it is arguable that it is his second best, but he was a veryContinue reading “I just knew”
You’ll sell the ground beneath your feet
The first of two appearance of Fish as a lead singer, this one as a solo artist. Fish had been the lead singer of Marillion and when he left the group in looked like a double your money situation. Marillion released Season’s End and Fish released Vigil In a Wilderness of Mirrors – both greatContinue reading “You’ll sell the ground beneath your feet”
Then the cowboy turned the gun on himself
One Saturday afternoon in the sixth form I was listening to the Richard Skinner show on Radio 1. They had a group called Theatre of Hate in playing tracks from their new album Westworld. “From the south on a wind in walked a cowboy The saloon was dry but his guns were well oiled SomehowContinue reading “Then the cowboy turned the gun on himself”
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