The Life and Opinions of Andrew Rilstone

My Grandfather remembered a world without radio. My parents grew up in a world where Uncle Mac and In Town Tonight reigned supreme. When I ...

Do you remember Before Watchmen?  Do you remember Doomsday Clock?   I have certainly forgotten the HBO Watchmen TV sequel, although I belie...

 A series of very short articles

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 I got a review! Obviously I didn’t get straight off the train from Exeter and hop on a bus from Temple Meads to Wells to join some shanty-a...

Final day.  I am dictating this into my Iphone on a train. Apple notes has a built in speech-text feature, so what could possibly go wrong? ...

Who was it who said that travel infantilises you? Like a toddler, you suddenly find that you have to specifically plan and take account of y...

 I carelessly left my keyboard in the café. They kept it for me, of course, and the coffee-making lady said she had been asking if anyone kn...

 — Panel about Widicombe Fair. There are lots of versions. — Anchor/Middle Bar Singaround. Lots of singing.  — Concert: Joshua Arnold (stran...

No, I am sorry. A blossom is at best a potential cherry. An egg yolk is the possibility of a chicken. You might as well say that a book that...

Today I have been mostly listening to legends. Lunchtime — Martin Simpson! Played his twiddly bluesy slide guitar and sang a song about a tr...

First full day of festival…..  Coffee and bacon roll in cafe. Bumped into my Recently Ennobled Folk Friend. (Lady in cafe greets him as ‘Sir...

Overheard outside Sidmouth YMCA: “Daddy, do you suppose they named it after the song?” Quite a long way into conversation with a man in the ...

  It turns out that there is Another Shop, which sell Everything Except Tent Pegs. I do, however, refuse to spend £10 on a water bottle, par...

I am in the Rincon cafe .  T he shop which sells absolutely everything, opposite, has closed. How will I pick up the things i din’t pack or ...