in case it rings bells, the title is a misquote of the cuttingly clever lyric ‘There were lines on the mirror, lines on her face’
Month: December 2009
Turnout, weather and lunch
Tom’s first day of turnout after more than three weeks of ‘confinement’; things were fraught! By 7am we were schooling in the indoor arena. An
Urging gently
I have the urge to write – creatively – but I’m not sure I have the patience to do it properly at the moment and
Looking forward to it!
The 2010 Eventing Season is really close – given that the Entry date for competitions are so far in advance of each actual One Day
Honey and murder for your ears
The Christmas Eve show brings our listeners five totally excellent tracks, much wide-ranging and very varied conversation that includes: The Cheese Game taking an unusual
Don’t look back in anger
It’s that time of the year when my mind slips itself off the lead and bounds along the snow-covered, hedgerow-lined fields of memories, like a
Meet the family
Just don’t ask why I seem to assume such a weird voice when I talk to them…
Twitter Etiquette – my 2010 will be…
… slightly different… I love Twitter. No, really. I am a massive fan of the microblogging service. I like the brevity of 140 characters. I
Dumped on my arse (sortov)
Yeah, it’s time for an equine catch-up… Vin… Vin’s reported lameness is puzzling. I put him on two sachets of ‘Bute for the first feed,
Time for bed, said the Zeb cat
OK, when I start talking hippie-speak it’s definitely past my bedtime. I have been working my way through a stack of programme/project documentation for the
Indie goodness, straight to your ears!
This week’s podcast treads new ground, and it’s worth listening to for that alone! Four guests join the show; talented indie-foursome inLight come in to
It’s Thursday but it feels like
… Friday. I don’t know why. It just seems to have been a six day week already, and it’s not even F-F-F-Friday yet. I had
The antidote to X-Factor
Here is 8m 27s of better quality entertainment than two nights of ITV gave us on Saturday and Sunday: Thanks to Matt Edmondson
How green is my valley?
I’m going to begin with the blindingly obvious statement: I am not an environmental scientist. What I know about global warming climate change I get
Trying to be clever with audio. Probably failing
I have to create a sound-bed (a piece of backing music) for a scripted narration. The narration hasn’t been recorded yet, but reading through the
Peaches Geldoff – she speaks!
Do you remember that classic moment of history when, during one of the earliest airings of the new technology that delivered ‘talking movies’ to the
A time-wasting conversation
Get bloody going! I can’t. Why not? I’ve got a bone in my leg. And look at my arm. See? It does that when I
Offensively excellent!
There are now 44 minutes of Old Biddie-offending musical podcast fun roaming the internet. This week we include these talkie bits: * The Cheese Game,
Easing that stiffness
I went to the osteopath yesterday morning, just for a check-up. It’s been about ten years since I last had such a check. At the