Greetings, dear heart. Apologies that I’ve not updated for a while, I’ve had a few pieces on the go and it’s just a case of getting round to finishing them. There is a new book review below-look, there it is! – So you can read that just now. I hope to have a piece on Halloween done before Halloween, in a miracle of convenient and sensible planning, and am also just dusting up the introduction to the beginning of a series on 90’s pop. So look forward to that. Or don’t, whatever. Haters.
Also, by way of creating regular content which is key to a blog but not necessarily possible given my verbosity, I present to you five good things, a frequent update of things that, in total, amount to five, and are considered laudable by myself.
5 Good things:
1) Autumn: Author of an intangible, smoky mien, bringer of birthdays, killer of wasps. Best season of the year.
2) Portobello. Experiences may vary, but I enjoyed it when I was there on Saturday.
3) Sunderland unbeaten in the Premier League in the past month, despite playing Liverpool, Arsenal and Man Utd. Empirical evidence to support the claim that they are by far the greatest team the world has ever seen.
4) Dominic Sandbrook’s latest piece of social and cultural history of Britain has been published. It’s git big and I’m reading other books just now but his previous offerings on the fifties and sixties were probably the best books I read last year.
5) Bear Gryll’s Born Survivor. A description would make it sound rubbish, but it’s really enjoyable, so you should watch it.
Not pictured: Dying wasps. Haha.
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