Mike McDonnell – Personal Trainer, Braintree, Essex
A recommendation here for Mike (Michael) McDonnell, a personal trainer based in Braintree but working all over Essex and even in London.…
Alex Rand: Student Investor
Just thought I’d add my son’s natty new investment blog to the list of sites I recommend here. Brave of him to put his investments out in the open like this – I tend to keep mine to myself! I …
Decent Christmas Songs on a Spotify playlist
What’s not to like about this? A crowdsourced playlist of decent Christmas songs on Spotify that won’t make half of the room groan when they start playing. Thanks to all who contributed. Featuring (at the time of uploading) Alison Krauss …
How to find something you remember seeing in your own Twitter timeline
“When you’re trying to find tweets about a specific topic on your timeline, it can be a nightmare sorting through all the tweets from friends, celebrities, news sources, and everyone else you follow on Twitter. While you can search Twitter …
Best UK Number Ones Ever
I hate it when people post on Twitter: “Here’s my list of the best…, what’s yours?”, because I simply can’t resist.
…****GREATEST NO. 1 POLL****
As you all know, the only good music is CHART MUSIC with No.1 hit singles
My favourite 20 films of the decade 2010 to 2019
A roundup of the decade appears to be compulsory for anyone who’s so much as commented on a film in the last few years, so here’s my contribution! This is not a list of the ‘best’ films I’ve seen – …
“Faces Of The Year” Printable Christmas Picture Quiz UK
December 2019
Always popular at our Christmas party, this one, and people always ask for a copy, so here it is (below, click for printable PDF). All you need to do is to identify the faces who have been in …
How to get a 100%, A* EPQ mark – some tips
My son did his Extended Project Qualification (EPQ) in 2018, at Hills Road Sixth Form College, Cambridge, and it was really interesting to watch. For something worth just half an A-level (and in reality when it comes to university applications, …
Beds, Scientific Instruments and more: a few new websites
A few websites I feel obliged to recommend to you, mainly because I had a hand in making them.…
Music and Movies of the Year 2018
Getting better! My last few years’ totals of new films viewed have been 46, 52, 61 and now 73. Beating that is going to be quite the challenge in 2019.…
My most shared Tweets of all time
I was nerdy enough to get on Twitter really early on (August 2007), as @CherryHintonBlu. Quite a few even more curious people had been there before me, as I was only user ID number 8,015,922. Here’s my first Tweet (Twitter …
“Faces Of The Year” Printable Christmas Picture Quiz UK
Please Note: this year’s (2019) “Faces Of The Year” Printable Christmas Picture Quiz will be published on Monday 23 December. Sorry it’s late, but so is our Christmas party this year. If you like the look of last year’s quiz …
Top 10 Songs by: The Smiths
- Someone said that you only really like a band if you have real trouble deciding what your top 10 songs of theirs are. Good point. It turns out that not as many acts meet that criterion as I would have
Top 10 Songs by: Yes
- Someone said that you only really like a band if you have real trouble deciding what your top 10 songs of theirs are. Good point. It turns out that not as many acts meet that criterion as I would have
Top 10 Songs by: Steely Dan
- Someone said that you only really like a band if you have real trouble deciding what your top 10 songs of theirs are. Good point. It turns out that not as many acts meet that criterion as I would have
Top 10 Songs by: The Style Council
- Someone said that you only really like a band if you have real trouble deciding what your top 10 songs of theirs are. Good point. It turns out that not as many acts meet that criterion as I would have
Top 10 Songs by: Prefab Sprout
- Someone said that you only really like a band if you have real trouble deciding what your top 10 songs of theirs are. Good point. It turns out that not as many acts meet that criterion as I would have
Top 10 Songs by: Genesis
- Someone said that you only really like a band if you have real trouble deciding what your top 10 songs of theirs are. Good point. It turns out that not as many acts meet that criterion as I would have
Music and Movies of the Year 2017
I always enjoy compiling end-of-year lists. For the past few years I’ve added all the new music I like to a Spotify playlist, then selected my favourite songs from that year’s list to make a top 10, or 20. It’s …
“Faces Of The Year” Printable Christmas Picture Quiz 2017
I made up a quick quiz for our Christmas party last night, and one or two people asked if they could have copies to recycle at their own gatherings, so here it …
Seriously? Meme
Heidi Allen MP in the House of Commons, 2 November 2017. In response to some right-winger making some typically appalling comment.
Seriously?
…Cambridge Folk Festival 2017 thoughts
Another year, another Cambridge Folk Festival – our 27th in succession, by current reckoning. Many people have been going far longer: it really is an institution. I’m not a huge folk music fan, just a local resident who loves the …
General Election Football Analogy
I once tried to explain the parliamentary electoral system to a teenage relative, using footballing terms. It’s not a perfect analogy, but it’s a lot more perfect than the way we choose our government.
“Imagine we’re having an election to …
Why I’m not renewing my Ipswich Town season ticket
Not angry. Just bored.
I’ve had a season ticket at Portman Road since 1974, apart from a few years when I was away at university. For the first few years I went with a schoolmate and we both stood on …
Music of the Year 2016
So for the fifth year running, every time I came across some new music I liked in the last 12 months I added it to a ‘best of the year’ Spotify playlist. And for the third year running, the list …