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The Island of Abandonment

Anyone fancy spending a week sailing across the Bay of Logic, or maybe emigrating for several years to Fool’s Paradise?

I hear that it’s not easy to get a visa for Utopia these days.

James Turner’s Map Of Humanity is a staggering achievement and, judging by his explanation, is not something to take lightly.
It is an attempt [...]

Satchel Blue release ‘February’

Our latest album, titled February, has now been officially released.

It’s the fourth album released under the Satchel Blue name, although the first to really feature the complete band.

It’s also the first to be released with AWAL.

View Satchel Blue – February on iTunes.

A very limited number of CD’s will be available very soon.

The Bristol Sessions E.P. [...]

Talk Like A Pirate Day 2007

Now I know I’ve mentioned it before, largely due to spotting this poster by accident in Cornwall last year, but it honestly had completely escaped my attention that today was Talk Like A Pirate Day.

That was until I popped over the Flickr to check that my cameraphone Royal Albert Hall photo had transferred ok last [...]

Phew!

13.1 miles completed in 1 hour 49 minutes.

It must have been the new shoes.

[update] I came 421st out of a total of 1,505 finishers according to the results list – that’ll do me.

New Forest Half Marathon

On Sunday I will be running, or attempting to run, my 8th half marathon. Eight!! And that’s without mentioning three Great Midlands Fun Runs and one Great South Run.

What began as a completely under-researched idea in a pub beer garden in 1998 has rather surprisingly led to an interesting and bizarre selection of [...]

Spell with flickr

Some time ago I had what I thought was a great idea. It centred around trying to give a bit more focus to my photography whilst being more creative at the same time.

Without going into all of the boring detail it basically involved taking pictures of a whole variety of typography, signage, lettering etc [...]

Moseley Folk Festival 2007

The second annual Moseley Folk Festival took place in Moseley Park this weekend.

Lots of fun was had by all and the it remained dry until 7.30pm on Sunday evening which isn’t bad going considering the summer we’ve had.

I found it particularly noteworthy for a number of, quite different, reasons.

It was the first occasion in a [...]