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I’m a British ex-pat living in the Monterey Bay Area of California. I’m a musician, writer, educator and sometime technologist. Opinions expressed on this site are my own.

Category: Culture

  • Crusader Magazine

    As a pupil in a Catholic junior school in the 1970s, one of the things I used to look forward to was the monthly arrival of Crusader magazine. This would be sold to us by our teacher for 8p a copy, and avidly read during morning break on the day it arrived. Crusader was a…

  • Death by a Thousand Subscriptions

    I am well aware that writing a blog is something of an exercise in vanity, and that as well as being the author of this blog I am also probably its only reader. However, I write it mostly for the pleasure of getting my thoughts out on the page and to be able to read…

  • To Change the World, Click Here (or not)

    I first published this on my squashy.net blog in 2018. A year or two ago, an old friend posted the following on his Facebook page: WANTED: Participants for a book-loving social experiment. Comment if you want to participate and I’ll send you details. What do you have to do? Buy your favorite book and send…