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We don’t see edges do we Nancy?
I never met Rory in person. I spoke to him regularly on the phone, indeed sometimes I even spoke to his lovely Mum on the phone. However a phone friendship with Rory was richer than most of the in-person friendships I’ve ever had. And we would talk for hours when phoning between Wales and Hungary…
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Eight’s A Wish
It’s been a hot summer, so I’ve certainly had a lot of wear out of my t-shirts. However, I had to retire a few worn-out shirts recently and due to uncertainty around my employment I didn’t replace them. Magpie was Thames Television’s answer to the BBC’s flagship children’s magazine programme Blue Peter. It came from…
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A Maze in Telly
How I arranged the 4-Square Maze theme for an orchestra in MuseScore 4.
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Remember the name
A look back at some bits and bobs I did as a favour for the late, and much missed, Rob Milburn.
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Lemons Parking
A look at what the ground-breaking First Report/News at One theme would sound like if it had been played by an orchestra.
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We will mend it…
At the end of June 2023, my friend Mark Simpson from BBC Northern Ireland’s presentation department wrote to me with a rather unusual request. “An incident has occurred with our BBC1NI globe. It seems a new cleaner has been into our Pres suite and wiped the legend with something which has taken some of the…
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Trade Test Transmission
This is just a quick post in case you come across this page accidentally. I am going to blog about my hobbies: the BBC Micro, fonts, Blender, Inkscape, Linux, the GIMP, Python and anything else I happen to be playing with. I’m just moving into this WordPress blog at the moment, so I’ll start writing…