Poppycock
I’ve had a changing attitude to the Poppy Appeal. Through my childhood and early teens I always dutifully wore one. I distinctly remember floods of tears one year when I lost mine in the playground at...
View ArticleFlight of Fancy
Regular readers (all three of you) will recall my flight from hell back in September, when my plane was delayed by seven hours (SEVEN!) en route to Berlin, after funny smells wafted into the cabin. It...
View ArticleFirst the ballet, then the inevitable discussion
I have never been to a ballet performance before last night. But then I discovered that the English National Ballet was bringing its production of Swan Lake to the Liverpool Empire. It was Mum’s...
View ArticleTravels with Hampo
Happy New Year to all three of my readers! On a personal level, I think what I’ll remember most about 2014 is the travelling I did. The start of the year set the tone, as I headed down to that London...
View ArticleI bought a diary from a pound shop
I’ve tried to keep a diary for several years, to record hopes, dreams, idle fantasies about chaps I fancy, that sort of thing. Usually my efforts have been inconsistent. I forget to fill in one day...
View ArticleA3010
The first Acorn computer I ever owned (and the third computer overall, after a Commodore VIC-20 and C64) was an A3010. It was bought for me in May 1993, purchased from Rapid Computers on Childwall...
View ArticleStuff happens
As August gave way to September, I found myself in something of a low mood. There were actual tears produced at one point. It had been a stressful few weeks. Work has been difficult, I’ve had an End...
View ArticleBoast
Just going to leave this here… Two-thirds of a degree. A photo posted by Robert Hampton (@hampo) on Dec 3, 2015 at 11:17am PST
View ArticleAll Good Things
It might have been an omen. On Monday afternoon I tried to log in to put the finishing touches to this post, only to find my blog was inaccessible due to a database snafu at my web hosting provider....
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