Back in 2020, like billions around the world I had plenty of time to pass with my 'business' hands tied firmly behind my back. And yet I felt fortunate that we didn't live in suburbia, or urbia. Not sure if anybody refers to it that way, do they? I mean, suburban / urban, suburbia / [...]

It's been a while since publishing my first novel, The Tramp, and music CD, The Tramp: The Music of Robert Aitken, in 2017, yet I've not dawdled that much, really ... I'm finishing up a full length, 460-odd page psychological thriller waiting for a final read through, plus another tale set in the 10th century [...]

I haven't spoken for a while. Busy times at work, rest and play. Being a sole operator, there are no knock on / knock off times, just a need to rationalise each project and work to the demands of processes and deadlines. That hasn't stopped me from working on renovation and reparation projects at home. [...]

While I was out walking this morning, a song from my 2014 CD Invisible popped up on my playlist. With rekindled memories I listened to a few other tracks and decided that the quality of my home studio recording and mixing back in 2012/13/14 was pretty good, after all. Anyway I digress; as I listened [...]

One of the joys of having a number of decades behind you, is each carries a plethora of memories and experiences. One might argue there is something wrong with a psychology if one tends only to remember great experiences in amazing detail, good experiences fairly and, bad? Well, for me the 'bad' seem to vaguely [...]