- 3 days ago
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: GET A HAT
So, if you want to get ahead, get a hat. The imagery and sentiments in that newspaper ad from 1949 may be very much of their time but...
- Jul 23
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: NEVER FORGET
On Wednesday, we went to see the elephants in London’s Green Park; yes, just round the corner from the tube station, down by the side of...
- Jul 16
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: SELECTIVE VOWEL REDUCTION SYNDROME
Having had a career of sorts in marketing, at times I fret about the ethics of trying to convince folk that they need something they can...
- Jul 9
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: JUMPERS FOR GOALPOSTS
Small boys in the park, jumpers for goalposts. Rush goalie. Two at the back, three in the middle, four at the front, one's gone home for...
- Jul 2
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: A CORNISH TALE OR TWO
The daughter of a Sudanese astrophysicist and a Scottish diplomat, Eliza Shaddad, has a cosmopolitan background having honed her language...
- Jun 25
GENESIS: STRICTLY COME FOXTROT
Travelling home from Devon today so Fifty3 Fridays should return in its regular guise next week. Meanwhile here is a diversion, but a...
- Jun 18
AL STEWART: PAST, PRESENT & FUTURE REVISITED
A short staycation in Devon beckons today and so we are taking a break from regular Fifty3 Fridays, the land of new music and most things...
- Jun 11
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: BETTER DAYS
So, we have good days, we have bad days. Today is already shaping up to be a better day, courtesy of that one-man indie hit machine and...
- Jun 4
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: CARRYING THE BATON
Over the past decade Little Majorette, the musical pseudonym of English singer songwriter Zoe Durrant, has taken different paths after...
- Jun 2
TRACK BY TRACK: THE YEAR YOU’LL NEVER GET BACK BY PAPER ANTHEM
Paper Anthem is the musical vehicle of Fayetteville, Arkansas singer, musician and songwriter Joseph Hitchcock. You may recall me...
- May 28
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: MAKING UP THE NUMBERS
Happy anniversary! Recalling that I started Fifty3 Fridays exactly one year ago this day, it makes today the Fifty3rd Friday. At this...
- May 21
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: IN ALICE’S FOOTSTEPS
The character of Alice has endured since her story first began in 1862 by an Oxford mathematician entertaining a friend’s children on a...