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Redmond Simonsen is dead

19 May 2008
Posted by Ian Chadwick
[indent]It's always a shock to find out an old friend has passed away. I am upset that I had lost contact over the years and was so lax in staying in touch. In the interim, a once-close friend died.

Redmond Simonsen died of heart problems,...

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A boy, his dog and a ukulele

18 May 2008
Posted by Ian Chadwick
[indent]Dogs. I've always liked dogs. I like their company. Dogs are, unlike most people, always happy, uncritical, accepting, loyal and affectionate. Dogs are lifetime friends.

I've never understood people who get dogs and abandon them to live outside, miserable lives tied to short chains. I've never understood people...

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Tinkling the nylon strings

22 March 2008
Posted by Ian Chadwick
[indent]Maybe it's time we retired the hundred-plus Elvis Tribute Artists we see here every year, and brought in a week-long show featuring George Formby Tribute Artists. Imagine a week full of people strumming ukuleles, singing Leaning on a Lamppost and Lancashire Toreador, dressed in bowtie and wide-lapel suit...

[i]I'm...

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Looking for the right harp

20 September 2007
Posted by Ian Chadwick
[indent]I'm not a musician, I just hack away at it. I don't have any real musical talent, but I enjoy playing and learning. I used to play a lot - guitar, harmonica, some keyboards - lots of jams and even a few gigs. I used to jam weekly at the now-metamorphosed Pine Street café, back in the days when it had Sunday jams. I...

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ERB and the tales of youth

27 August 2007
Posted by Ian Chadwick
[indent]I don't know how old I was when I first read Tarzan, perhaps 10 or 12. It was on our family bookshelf, beside a few aging Boy's Own, Punch annuals, and some other old British books. Tarzan may have been a first hardcover edition, too - the Boy's Own Annuals were pre-WWI (I still have a couple of them) so it might...

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Re-learning chess

14 July 2007
Posted by Ian Chadwick
[indent]At my father's funeral, I recalled in my eulogy two things he gave me me: he brought me up in a house where reading was respected and he taught me to play chess. Yes, he did a lot more for me, but these two things stood out in my memory.

Dad taught me chess at an early age; six or eight years old. I proceeded to teach...

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This getting old thing sucks

20 June 2007
Posted by Ian Chadwick
[indent]I'm still listening to the music I was listening to when I was 25. I can still sing along with every Beatles' song and remember the lyrics to literally thousands of songs by them, the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Blood, Van Morrison, Blood, Sweat & Tears and hundreds of other 60s' bands... but sometime in...

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Blogging and politicians

30 March 2007
Posted by Ian Chadwick
[indent]I took a few shots today from Scoop's 45-calibre pen over at the East-End Underground for my recent comments posted on this blog. Not the first time I've had my lumps from him. In his comments, Adams says,
[quote]I guess that just means Monday night will be another...

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Cold, damn cold

06 March 2007
Posted by Ian Chadwick
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Sixty degrees celsius. That's 140 degrees fahrenheit for those of you still in my generation's learning path. That's the change in temeprature since I returned from Mexico. Actually some days it was closer to 70 degrees C,...

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The stuff of heroes

10 December 2006
Posted by Ian Chadwick
[indent]There are moments in each person's life when one is faced with a decision that changes your life irrevocably. Moments when you stand, briefly, at the apex. You can go back, you can go forward, but once the decision is made, you cannot undo it. Nothing will be the same no matter what you choose. You are committed to the...

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