Monthly Archive: April 2020
Locked down in Leeds #2: Sol 43 The Plan
Podcast 2. I started talking about leadership but then came up with a Plan. A cunning plan. Maybe Boris, Mr Blackadder, Sir, will like it. https://soundcloud.com/user366791295/lockeddowninleeds-2-270420
Sol 36 Wired for sound
Yuk, just made myself remember that Cliff Richard song. So here goes – first podcast I’ve done ever #LockeddowninLeeds. Recording it was fine, editing it has ruined my evening. Forgive the clunkiness, maybe I’ll get better. So this is me…
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Sol 33 Friday night gig
Off to a gig tonight. It’s pretty relaxed. No checks at the door, I’ve got a back stage pass. No queues at the bar, I just head for a top-up when I need to. I can always ask the band…
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Sol 28 Teeth on edge
This was first posted on Culture Vulture, a happy band of bloggers and reviewers and ordinary Leeds folk, as Billy Fisher’s mum might have said (Billy Liar). My mate dreamt that she married Boris Johnson, presented a daytime TV programme…
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Sol 32 Stockpile!
What kind of stockpiler are you? Want to know? Try our handy quiz to find out if you’re: an altruistic goddessa greedy bastardan excremental obsessivean alcoholic Or maybe it depends when you ask. In the early days of HM Gov…
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Sol 31 The grief
I had a funnier blog lined up but it’s not right today. I talked to Annie earlier. She has a number of elderly relatives for whom she’s buying food, keeping an eye out for them, hoping they stay home. They…
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Sol 26 Clapping for carers
I once read that writing a blog is like shouting into the void. You don’t know if it’s echoing off bare rock or whether someone is out there. And maybe I’m just writing this to my future self. When I…
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Sol 24 Virtually a Birthday
The idea was right. My son’s 25th birthday – ‘a quarter of a century!’ as he tells people. And we can’t have a regular hands-on, everyone gets a bit of cake, toast the host kind of party, so let’s get…
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Sol 21 The city centre
Leeds City Centre has a lot of shops. In fact, Leeds is known, renowned for shops, shopping, it’s a leisure activity. It’s what Leeds does. On an average Saturday, it’s a big happening, people are cruising around, browsing clothes, buying…
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Sol 20 First thoughts
‘Let’s start at the very beginning, it’s a very good place to start’. Well yes, Maria, but the problem with this pandemic thing is that at the beginning, you don’t know it’s anything to proverbially lose sleep over. And then…
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