Spring has most definitely sprung. Oh, yus!
Witness this impressive photo of spring blossoms taken by our senior designer, Helene.
Eschewing the latest digital technology (she gets enough of that at work) Helene favours an old Polaroid 210 Land Camera she bought on Ebay last year for twenty quid. Here’s a picture of the old girl (the [...]
As is customary in these parts we like to share with you our annual picks of all things cultural. So here’s our take on 2008.
Firstly, our favourite books featured two by Cormac McCarthy with Mark choosing The Road and Pete, No Country For Old Men, Iain plumped for one of the Wallander series of books; [...]
We like this photograph.
Taken in the 1920’s by a mad photographer called Alfred G Buckham. It is owned by The National Galleries of Scotland.
Buckham had crashed nine times before he was discharged from the Royal Air Force as a hundred per cent disabled. Continuing to indulge his passion for aerial photography, he wrote that ‘If [...]
Us middle-aged men love Elbow (the Spanish Archer…El Bow? Gettit?).
Probably because they sing about middle-aged man things.
At one point on The Seldom Seen Kid Guy Grieve, in declaring his perhaps unrequited love, in Starlings sings
“You are the only thing in any room you’re ever in
I’m stubborn, selfish and too old.”
and …
“So yes I guess I’m [...]
The inaugural 60 Watt best of 2007 poll has been conducted and these are the results.
Best Movie
A tight fought thing between Atonement and Last King of Scotland, but the award has to go to Atonement because Last King was, strictly speaking, a 2006 movie although most of us saw it in 2007.
These were closely followed [...]
