Author Archives: 6000

7 weeks

By 6000 | 6000 | October 18, 2009

It’s just seven weeks until The Killers play “Cape Town” and that might explain why my whole family was dancing around the new study to the dulcet sounds of Brandon Flowers this evening before bathtime. We were both Human and Dancer, before you ask. But it’s the brilliant cover they did of Dire Straits’ Romeo [...]

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The great thing about quota photos…

By 6000 | 6000 | October 17, 2009

…is that it’s just about impossible for anything to be misinterpreted or misconstrued. This in turn means that no-one gets offended, no names get called and no allegations are levelled. This in turn means that everyone is happy. And that is good. I don’t usually play around with my photos on the computer “post processing”. As far as [...]

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Jan Moir on Stephen Gately – nearly right

By 6000 | 6000 | October 16, 2009

Incoming: As a Brit why haven’t you written a post today about this Stephen Gately Death Column by Jan Moir in the Daily Mail and all the scandal it’s causing? Well, OK… Jan Moir’s piece in the Daily Mail about the recent demise of Boyzone’s Stephen Gately was originally titled: Why there was nothing ‘natural’ [...]

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Happier then…

By 6000 | 6000 | October 16, 2009

This is my daughter in a beer garden in January. See how she smiles. This was not the case last night. My daughter has tonsilitis. She announced this to us by having a huge spiking fever at about three o’clock this morning and then, when we went to investigate the circumstances surrounding her crying, by copiously [...]

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Choked

By 6000 | 6000 | October 15, 2009

I’m in shock. Mildly, anyway. I just got this in my email from a-ha’s official website: With the current album ‘Foot of The Mountain’ enjoying both commercial success and critical acclaim, A-ha has decided to call it a day. As a consequence, A-ha will not be releasing any further albums in the future. The band would like [...]

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