Well it seems hardly anyone these days. You used to be able to work out who the good guys were but not anymore it seems. More and more it seems that we edge closer to the end of everything familiar that we know. Maybe the bad guys have already won?

No1 in a series of senior moments:

I have a folding sack trolley, it’s been very useful for band kit and recently to get the new air conditioner up the 42 steps into the flat (sadly not 39 steps which would have been more poetic) but hasn’t folded for years as I thought it was stuck. After shuffling some music kit around on it this morning I decided to have a closer look at it. It seems visually there was nothing wrong with the folding mechanism apart from a small spot of rust. In a moment of wild abandonment I decided to push forward on it against the base expecting nothing to happen but after a slight cracking sound (not unlike the noises my back and arms make on occasion) it miraculously folded with very little effort on my part.

It would appear dear reader that for about 7 years since the last occasion that I did successfully collapse and fold it that I have been pushing in the wrong direction…

100 Years of Mein Kampf OMG

Wow, 100 years ago now and it’s still insidiously doing its thing it would seem.
A kid went to school with brought it, when we were all buying Mao’s Little Red Book, featuring greatest hits like:

“A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery… A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.”

If you can listen to the BBC where you are this I think is worth your time.

Archive on 4

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002fj5g

A century has passed since the publication of Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler’s notorious book. Part-autobiography, part-political manifesto, few today have read it – and even fewer admit to doing so. Yet its ideas, expressed in often meandering and barely coherent prose, laid out the groundwork for the most destructive ideology of the 20th century. The programme explores the notorious and anti-Semitic content of Adolf Hitler’s infamous book.

A band friend shared a Christian song they had written and recorded (being a person of faith) and I was very moved by it having taken the time to listen properly as it revealed a little more about them..

This last week has been somewhat atypical. I have been working on music a fair bit but also doing various domestic stuff that my partner normally takes care of as well as they will be a little while mending yet.