Month: July 2013

  • Absolute Radio to be Acquired by Bauer Media

    Somehow Storify seemed like the appropriate vehicle for this! And it also neatly gets me out of trying to analyse the future of the business that I’ve worked at for nearly 17 years, especially when it mightn’t be appropriate. [View the story “Bauer Media to Acquire Absolute Radio” on Storify] Yes, this will affect me.…

  • Rolling Thunder

    listen to ‘Distant Thunder’ on Audioboo I always have my Zoom H2 handy in case of an electric storm. Sadly, this time they didn’t pass quite as closely to me as I’d have liked. So this is a little distant and is edited down from a 45 minute recording made in the small hours of…

  • Alpe d’Huez

    In anticipation of today’s double ascent of Alpe D’Huez, I made this T-shirt last night. I did make a Ventoux one prior to the weekend too – no photos yet though.

  • Frances Ha

    Frances Ha is a wonderful little film, but it’s almost completely impossible to explain. The story focuses on Frances and her friends, as we see her life as a struggling dancer in New York while she tries to earn enough to pay the rent, and her relationships with those friends. Chief among those friends is…

  • Sports on TV… Again

    The weekend just gone was a big one in UK sport. Picking up a broadsheet newspaper on Saturday morning left you in no doubt of that. And the first key event was the deciding Lions test in Sydney. Page after page was dedicated to Warren Gatland’s decisions over who to include and who to leave…