Darling Molly Gray
A simple but lovely tune, playing in open G tuning on a Shackleton banjo.
Category: Ramblings
2013 in Review
Music This really was a tough one. So much great stuff this year – both discovered and newly released. Turisas released the quirky but still good ‘2013’. Great though it was, it was a little bit of a let down after ‘Stand Up And Fight’. In the end, though, it came down to two albums
Preparing for the year in review
So, I skipped my annual ‘year in review’ post last year as everything was a bit strange, so I need to make up for it this year. I don’t think I’m going to do a double-event as, frankly, I can’t remember that far back 🙂 This year, though, will be a mixed bag – I
Tags
Tags are annoying little things. The trouble is, I always forget to add them when I write a post. As a result, I have a couple of hundred posts that I need to trawl through and retrospectively add tags to. It’s not an interesting thing to do 🙂 You’ll also, no doubt, have noticed many
Happy Birthday
Nelefa.org is officially an adult! The domain was originally registered on this day in 1997 – 16 years ago. How time flies when you’re talking utter pish. So – as a mini-celebration, I’m going to list my favourite film of each year nelefa.org has been alive. 1997 – Contact 1998 – Saving Private Ryan 1999
I’m a lazy old goat
No, really, I am. Thing is, I moved house (again!) recently. Probably a kind of backwards move, as far as most people would think, because I’ve gone from a lovely old sprawling farmhouse on top of a hill to a tiny little end-terrace in the middle of Livingston. Fact is, I love the tiny little
Evil Viruses
Something has been afoot with nelefa.org recently. I think something nasty got into one of the wordpress scripts. I *think* it’s now fixed, but if anyone notices anything odd, please tweet me on @johnmdow. [EDIT] I found it. Peoples – make sure your .htaccess isn’t writeable by the web server user.
2011 in review
It’s that time of year again! This year has seen much awesomeness pretty much across the board, so without further ado I shall leap right in there. Books Well, I kinda lagged behind a little this year and never made my target. So far, my read list is sitting at 45 books, a little under