This morning we had a visiting speaker at church who is notorious for going on for ages. So I turned up at the end of the service and I plan to get the CD instead, because then I can turn it off when I’m bored instead of having to sit there for two hours in ...

I just spent the day overhauling my Strat. The main thing I wanted to do was just to get the wiring done right so that all the pickups worked (it’s a little complicated since I have a push-pull switch on the second tone control which switches the humbucker at the bridge from series to parallel), ...

This evening after watching the last ever Friends, I was lured into watching the start of Big Brother. But after over half the contestants had entered the house I realised that I don’t like any of them and find most of them really irritating already, so I switched off the TV and decided that I ...

After church today we went for dinner at The White Lion, in Brownshill Green. It’s a very nice pub with great food, but they do have the weirdest pub sign outside.

As I hoped, The Courtship of Morrice Buckler is another really good book by A. E. W. Mason. It’s a book of honour, courage and romance, which contrasts rather nicely with most of the books by Anita Shreve. Although I still think she’s a great writer, it’s been a while since I’ve been able to ...

Today I went to Hay on Wye, where there are about thirty or so bookshops. While driving there I went through some really nice English countryside, but I didn’t stop because I thought I could get the photographs on the way home. Which was a stupid thing to think, because the light had changed and ...

At last, I have finished reading The Horse Whisperer, a book by Nicholas Evans. It’s been one of those books which has been a struggle to finish. I don’t like reading stuff where people have affairs and the author is writing it as if they’re doing the right thing. It just does my head in, ...