I'm 86, and life continues to be one great adventure.
I'm a jazz musician, webmaster, web project developer, writer, journalist, audio and video content creator, bibliophile, cook, fitness enthusiast, and lifelong learner. Whether I'm making music, developing websites, writing stories, producing digital content, experimenting with a new recipe, or staying active at the gym, I believe every day is an opportunity to learn, create, and connect.
This website brings together my passions—music, conversation, creativity, technology, worldwide friendships, and the simple pleasures of everyday life. It's a place to share ideas, experiences, and discoveries with people from around the globe who believe that curiosity and creativity have no expiration date.
Thanks for visiting. I hope you'll enjoy exploring, join the conversation, and come back often—because at 86, the adventure is still unfolding.
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Singing Jazz Changed Their Lives Both young women when I first met them. One, a single mother with two young children, living in difficult circumstances. The second, shy, nervous, and...
Paul Dubois - What Kind of Fool Am I Paul Dubois. Bass & Voc. Pierre Menetier. Pno. Robert Cordier. Drums. Peter Maguire. Valve Trombone. A track form 'The Groovers' album. Recorded at...
Miscarriage of Justice Returning late from a jazz gig in Manchester. It was after midnight when I exited the motorway on to the moorland road, the way to my home. I saw a van parked hard...
Tolkien Lord of the Rings - Ralph Bakshi's Film The Lord of the Rings is Ralph Bakshi’s 1978 animated adaptation of Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings was release: November 15, 1978. A mixture...
Prague Spring The Soviet Invasion A period of political liberalization in communist Czechoslovakia led by Alexander Dubcek. He promoted “socialism with a human face,” including greater...
Great British Puddings What is a British Pudding? Most people living within the British Isles would I expect know the answer to this question. Also, too, places in the world where early...
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My Earliest Memory: A WWII Air Raid When I Was 21 Months Old On the night of June 1–2, 1941, 110 German aircraft bombed Manchester and Salford during the Blitz. The heavily industrial area...
Curry: How I Learned To Love Spices I really knew little or nothing about curry until my late teens. When I did discover the delights of this distinctive cuisine I became a life long...
Nunc Dimittis. The Setting Was Awful I was a diffident and mentally unengaged choir boy. I did enjoy singing decants. But most hymns, musically, bored me. The exception was the Nunc...
The Diary of a Nobody Diary of a Nobody is a comic novel by George and Weedon Grossmith, first published in book form in 1892. It follows Charles Pooter, a respectable middle-class London...
Tolkien The Hobbit Calendar 1976 Some members of the Book Trade did not react with enthusiasm to the publication of a Tolkien Calendar. At that time significant numbers of booksellers...
Sam Widges, Soho, London Sam Widges was a famous 1950s and 1960s coffee bar and beatnik hangout located on the corner of Berwick Street and D'Arblay Street in Soho, London. It was here I...
How and Why I Became a Webmaster in 1996 Using the early Internet to solve a journalistic challenge that opened up a whole new career for me. everything from the European...
Blossom Dearie and The Art Of The Song Blossom Dearie (1924–2009) was an American jazz singer, pianist, and composer famous for her light, girlish voice, sophisticated phrasing, and...
Bow Ties In praise of the bow tie. The individually tied type, that takes on the character of the wearer. Not those awful, lifeless, unconvincing, ready tied articles, that unfortunately...
Wall Of Sound. Gig With Victor Brox The venue was in Bradford. Run by West Indian guys. One room. The bar, a plank on trestles. Drinks, one only, 'Red Stripe' beer. The wall opposite wall...
Lunch with Everest Legend Tenzing Norgay | Leeds 1977 Tenzing Norgay, May 1914 – 9 May 1986), born Namgyal Wangdi, and also referred to as Sherpa Tenzing, was a Nepalese-Indian Sherpa...
Robert Maxwell's Mother-of-Pearl Statue A statue, larger than full-size, occupied a niche in the reception room of Headington Hill Hall. How it got transported from Paris to...