“Ole George Moonbeam…innit” “Wassat?” “Moonbeam is trying to ban farming…” This is the sort of delicious aural titbit one cannot but overhear in the snug of a proper pub. I’m currently doing my impression of a vapid wastrel who has nothing better to do than drink pints of Spingo next to a log fire inContinue reading “Ole Moonbeam”
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Allegro
We all have to get around the place. In our early years that means using our legs as the primary means of transport before being promoted to a bicycle. When that happens, we are introduced to a largely pain free, and exciting, medium of getting from A to B via all points wherever. The bicycle.Continue reading “Allegro”
12 Rules for Life
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-3s3k9-1222368 A short while ago a Canadian clinical psychologist decided that the world needed a bit of a slap and a wake up call. His name is Jordan Peterson and he has gone on to make a good deal of money putting liberals and feminists ‘in their place’ for daring to transgress the laws ofContinue reading “12 Rules for Life”
This Gilded World.
Dubai Photo by Christoph Schulz on Unsplash Early morning arrives and sends an ever lightening blue grey sheen over the Dubai skyline. The parade of towers are clearly visible across the lagoon’s waters, between my hotel room and the city opposite, as it imperceptibly slides towards the sea. The water is of glass, as if polished to theContinue reading “This Gilded World. “
I’m coming home, I’ve done my time
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-czxei-11f2754 The last night here in Jeddah, so tomorrow I’m at last going home.
10. Sublime
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-8rk3h-11e53d3 While still in Bahrain, I had a wonderful dinner then an absolute travesty. Funny old world.
In defence of ’Old Fartism’
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-f8gbn-11e1f2d Yeah, ok, its a young person’s world now…and they are welcome to it. I didn’t think I’d ever say it, but its ok being old(er). Music credits to Re:formation buddies Andrew Tonkins and Geoff Colclough. The intro is “bald b’stard” and the backgound guitar work is Andy just noodling away.
9. Smokin’
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-nrihn-11e0f12 Back in februay 2021, and still waiting to get into Jeddah, I’m forced to spend time by the hotel pool in Bahrain. So, I am ‘avin’ a fag.
8. Logistics
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-hbdi7-11dfedd I have to sit through a meeting from hell in which highly skilled folk could not plan to their way out of their own kitchens.
7. Spice of Life
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-fug6q-11dee0a Still in the hotel in Bahrain in February 2021, thoughts drift to my immediate surroundings overlooking the highway and the old souk.
Lance Goodman 