My Dad taught me how to ride a bicycle.
My Dad taught me how to wire a 3-pin plug.
My Dad showed me how to mix cement.
My Dad taught me how to drive a car.
My Dad encouraged me to do my best.
My Dad died suddenly on 30th December 2024 at the age of 85.
My Dad is very much missed.
We still have a telly. It sits in the corner over there. Once or twice a week, we might find where the remote control went and fire the gogglebox up to catch some news. Otherwise, it spends most of its life wasting milliwatts on standby.
That said, I do use it to watch DVDs. I’ve only got a small collection, various films, some TV series box sets, that sort of thing. If I feel in the mood, I’ll take a disc from the shelf and turn the lights down and volume up, and wallow in some escapism for an hour or two.
Continue reading What I’ve been watching in 2024As with last year’s review, I haven’t provided links to purchase any of the books here. You can, no doubt, find them easily enough from the usual places — unless it can be avoided I have dropped Amazon as my go-to book store, preferring to use a small independent shop, The Wedale Bookshop. They are part of a network of bookshops across the UK, supported by Bookshop.org. Read more about it on this link-clicky-thing.
Continue reading What I’ve been reading in 2024As 2024 staggers to an end it’s become something of a tradition for TV news channels to review the past twelve months. It tends to be a reminder of bad times, death and destruction, and rarely of anything to celebrate. I always think such reviews smack of cheap production to fill time more than anything else. I dislike the things.
Why then, if I dislike such reviews, do I want to look over the past year from my perspective?
Consider this a quick and easy way to post something to my blog. I’ve currently run out of ideas of other things to write about. More accurately, I have lots of ideas, but some will take a while to work up to sensible posts.
What follows is a brief look over my modelmaking year of 2024. It’s not exactly going to set the world alight, and I am frankly surprised and a little annoyed at such a paucity of things to show you.
Continue reading A Year in Review—the small stuff