Issue 48

.. to be some sort of ‘interruption in the data flow’ and that somebody would look at it over the next two working days. So, when I can make an excuse to go to somebody’s place with a working Internet connection, I’ve been sending off another instalment of our monthly e-mail on their PCs. That’s…

Mike’s Pith & Wind cont. .. smoke. I can’t see that having any long-term effect. I think kids generally see smoking as a measure of maturity and sophistication for one thing, and if parents and oldies are agin it, it must be especially worth doing for another. Maybe that’s the clue. Maybe it’s time for…

.. existence, I volunteered that the Max Merritt song I’d commissioned myself to write was on hold while I executed another actual but highly unlikely commission to write some English lyrics for an Italian sixties pop song. The ‘being commissioned’ thing is a good story, but in practice it’s not quite as romantic as it…

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..discovered it was written by George Bernard Shaw – we’ll call him GBS from now on – and the star, (and executive producer), was none other than Christopher Plummer, widely pilloried for just being in The Sound of Music, but a perfect fit for the role of Caesar. The GBS version of the relationship between…