I have a lot of public profiles on the internet, and for obvious reasons, many of them mention that I work at UCE Birmingham. Unfortunately, that’s not the case anymore. I haven’t been fired or found a new job — the university has simply changed its name. From tomorrow, UCE Birmingham will be Birmingham City [...]
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Tagged: Internet, University
After dinner last night, Bobbie and I went with Sam to see Alice Russell live at the Hare and Hounds in Kings Heath. Great venue for live music, by the way. Alice Russell’s an amazing soul/funk vocalist and, among other things, fronts the Quantic Soul Orchestra. We left Jake at home with his friends Ethan [...]
A long while back, I signed up with Twitter. It was new and I’m always curious to find out about new things. If you haven’t encountered it, it’s a bit like the Facebook update thing: ‘What are you doing now?’. You type in a short message of up to 140 characters that lets people know [...]
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Tagged: Internet
I mentioned the other day that I’d had a drink with my friend Clutch – and that we’d discovered a Glenfiddich Toasted Oak limited edition that we quickly became quite fond of… Well, it being payday yesterday, there was a grocery shopping expedition at Tesco (it’s convenient, all right? Where’s the Waitrose near here?), where [...]
Categories: Whisky
Tagged: Whisky
A new world record was set today (28 September), with a bottle of whisky selling at auction for a remarkable £29,400. The Bowmore single malt whisky is the oldest bottle of Bowmore known to be in existence and is believed to have been bottled on Islay around 1850 by W & J Mutter. It was [...]
Categories: Whisky
Tagged: Whisky
It’s not so much a question of ‘what should I write about?’ as it is ‘where should I start?’. It’s been a week of change and activity this week. Some stuff I’m not even allowed to talk about yet, so you can imagine how significant those changes could be. What I can tell you is [...]
Categories: Whisky
Tagged: Personal, University, Whisky
On one of my my old blogs, back in April, I ran a post about a New Zealand band I really like called The Enright House. You might have seen it. Mark from the band dropped me an email today to let me know that they have a video for the single Darkwave=MC Squared, which [...]
Categories: Music
Tagged: Music
I've been told I'm hard to buy for. I suppose that's because I don't really need much of anything. I'm not that big into owning stuff. Except records. Records make me happy. If you want to make me happy, buy me a record.
With that in mind, here's a link to my Amazon Wishlist
