As a child, an oak tree grew outside my bedroom window. Its leaves were a rich dark green, and it produced a copious crop of acorns every year. On the next street corner, there was a sycamore tree whose seeds twirled like helicopter blades as they fell in the autumn. In the park that my…Read more The Trees and I
Month: February 2024
Fragments
If you live in the U.S. or Australia, you may be familiar with the word 'trifecta'. It's a type of bet in which the punter predicts the first three finishers in a horse race, in the right order. But this Old Man is not interested in horses or gambling and, anyway, here in the U.K.…Read more Fragments
Prelude to Ecstasy
The Last Dinner Party were formed in 2021 in the midst of the Covid lockdown. They exploded onto the indie/pop scene in April 2023 reaching no. 19 in the UK pop charts with the single, Nothing Matters. Their debut album, Prelude to Ecstasy, was released on 2nd February 2024, and it's a corker. As a…Read more Prelude to Ecstasy
Crotchety Man 