In general, moths get a hard time. For some reason, people stereotype them as ugly, drab, cloth-eating rascals that are so stupid that they skip around a light all night. I call those people racists. They are in fact from the same family as everyone’s favourite happy-day joy floaters; the butterflies. Moths are easily as [...]

I’ve been meaning to add a post about flags for a while. In fact, I almost feel that certain flags of the world demand a separate individual post to tell their own tale. I remember being obsessed with flags when I was at school. My geography teacher had huge map with all the flags of [...]

Warp records have only let me down a couple of times in their long history and that was probably more to do with my own musical insecurities at the time. Everything else has been a pleasure. They seem to be able to rescue me just when I get that ‘musical paranoia’ that all the best [...]

I have put a post up before about the sublime beauty of the illustrations of the Victorian naturalists, botanists and biologists. But Haeckel takes the trophy for the sheer quantity of ‘notable work’. He didn’t just discover thousands of new species but he also mapped out a genealogical tree for many species. A big pal [...]

Whilst hopping around my bedroom, trying to get my trousers on the other morning, I heard on the radio that Oliver Postgate had passed away at the age of 83. I stopped in my tracks and the theme tune to Bagpuss popped into my head. A strange sense of sadness flooded over me and I [...]

I can still remember the cassette that my Brother handed me in the early nineties. It was a TDK D90 and on it was a copy of Leftfield’s ‘Leftism‘. Somehow, probably becasue I didn’t have that many albums at the time (and certainly nothing like that) it became branded into my head. It permeated my [...]

Whenever I buy Harissa or sardines, I usually have no inclination whether or not the brand is a well respected one or not. I normally buy the product soley on how alluring the graphics are. I have never noticed any distinguishable difference in of the quality food inside and therefore find the process of selecting [...]

Pictures from Remember Filey Butlins Filey is a tiny little coastal town near Scarborough in North Yorkshire. The weather there can be both unforgiving and uncommonly clement. But the sea, being the of the ‘North’ variety, is always cold. It never had much going for it as a town, (perhaps it was never meant to), [...]