I was a dedicated diary writer from 1985 to 1990. I am slowly transcribing about 1000 pages of those scribblings, which include almost two years as a vagabond wandering in Asia, Europe and North America. I was pretty broke much of the time, so I had to take occasional jobs: some were engineering projects, but…
Category: Olde History
scribbles form my past, some of a very long time ago.
CV as Random Walk
Curriculum Vitae means the “course of one’s life”. Mine has not been a linear course but a random walk – one step in that direction, the next step in another. As I sketch below, the trajectory has been a sometimes tortuous, often aimless path, composed of surprise life lurches with many detours. Curriculum Vitae means the “course…
cross words on 2
In 1967 I worked part-time as a Special Effects helper on a TV game show at the Beeb – the BBC, or British Broadcasting Corporation – where I saw crosswords and heard cross words.
Trainspotting
“4-6-2!”.”4-4-4!” “Little sod! Bugger off!”. These expressions still chuff in my ears 50 or so years after I first heard them, as a trainspotter.