A CurryAoke Collection, 2001
Each time we hold this competition, as mentioned elsewhere, a theme is set and we provide 10 tracks based around it. For 2001 we were tasked with producing tracks on the theme of “Detectives, Spies & Private Eyes.” My submission for which, along with some brief notes, is outlined below.
Splodgenessabounds - Simon […]
The Cliftons Roundabout story, Pt 1.
It’s a stupid question really, or seemingly so, but then we’ll be getting our own soon enough. We had a small commercial/industrial unit near to where we live. One day we found that it had been bought by the Big Yellow company and that they planned to knock it down […]
This was part of a short safari trip we took in South Africa on the Kariega Reserve. Not a large reserve and privately owned and run, it still contains Africa’s “Big 5″ game animals. A nice feature of the drives around this reserve was that the animals are not radio tagged, so the rangers have […]
I’ve written elsewhere along these lines, but I intend to post details of some actual competitions here and thought a basic grounding in the concept would be useful for anyone joining in for the first time.
CurryAoke started some years back when it was suggested that two of us provide music for a dinner party and […]
Could sitcoms ever replicate real life?
I used to think that real life could never include the sort of episodes that occur in a sitcom (the jury’s still out on Terry & June), but then one day, I was a participant in the following conversation as my wife attempted to explain to me how to tell […]
Please bear with me in this and don’t drift away just because this is a post about the round-ball game. Once again, the England team have disappointed by failing to turn their pre-tournament hype into a trophy winning sequence of results. As is usual in this situation, at least as far as the England team […]
Intro
Well, installing this was easy enough, I guess the hardest part will be finding regular things to blather about. We’ll just have to see what inspiration there is in the World.
I did try keeping a diary once, it lasted for a few weeks, but then petered out. Looking at it many years later, it mainly […]