From the category archives:

Miscellany 2004

What’s Your Pointless Obsession?

December 9, 2004

What’s your pointless obsession? It’s got to be pointless and yet take up lots of time that really you would be better spent working in a soup kitchen or raking the leaves. Mine is PIM (and I am not talking about the drink).

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Another Grid Lock

November 20, 2004

Traffic From Hell would make a great name for a TV show. Have they already done that?

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Grid Lock

November 14, 2004

Traffic hell on the way home from a nice weekend on the south coast.

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The Whispering Years

November 1, 2004

It’s not dull or bland in anyway but, perhaps because there’s a little of the 60s hippy left in Bob Harris, you feel the measured approach is entirely appropriate.

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Lucky Man: A Memoir

October 23, 2004

An absorbing and very well-written book that proves that people in the public eye and just like the rest of us.

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BBC4 Should Broaden Its Appeal

October 14, 2004

You dream of something good and I dream of BBC Television idents. I also remember children’s TV and want to impact the US elections. It’s an odd train of thought today.

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