

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 30, 2021


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 23, 2021


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 16, 2021


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 9, 2021


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...
Jul 2, 2021


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 25, 2021


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 18, 2021


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 11, 2021


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 4, 2021


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...
Jun 2, 2021


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 28, 2021


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...
May 21, 2021