Author Archive: Bob Massey
The name's Bond…
Further to my recent pulp fiction post, Tom has loaned me a copy of the new James Bond novel “Devil May Care” – written by Sebastian Foulkes in the style of Ian Fleming. And to be fair its a passable recreation of Flemings writing style; short sharp sentences, lavish descriptions of what passed for gourmet […]
Continue readingQuizzes – again
I had a couple of errands to run last evening, one of which was dropping some stuff to my old friend Howard. Howard is a professional quiz-master and DJ who has been running quizzes around South Woodham Ferrers for as long as weve lived there. And to be fair to Howard, even when Jon and […]
Continue readingPolitics – no, make that politics
I think the small P is probably relevant. Last evening I was co-opted back onto South Woodham Ferrers Town Council. Its effectively a Parish Council, but once your population tops 15,000 or so I think youre allowed to call yourself a Town rather than a Parish. I served on the Town Council between 1992 and […]
Continue readingOld Wild Men
Another trawl through the dusty recesses of the iPod, truly a wonderful machine. Had someone told me back in the seventies that I could carry a sizeable record collection in my pocket then I would not have been able to comprehend what they were talking about. That it happened within my lifetime I find quite […]
Continue readingMusic and Quizzes
Last evening my mate Tom and I went down the road for a beer. It being a Sunday evening our local was running its regular Pop Quiz, so we helped out one of the teams. The pop quizzes have been running at The Curlew for about twelve to fifteen years I guess, and while it may […]
Continue readingPulp Fiction
As well as the iPod, I find myself devouring pulp fiction. I know theres lots of more worthy stuff I could be doing, I could take the laptop and do webby stuff, a few more paragraphs of my life story, or even resurrect my novel, which is currently gathering dust. Its nice to just veg […]
Continue readingOld Music
My journey home last night was, almost inevitably, delayed. Although National Express didnt deign to explain why a fifty minute train journey should be delayed by about fifteen minutes. Never mind, I spent some time trawling though my iPod and choosing some oldies to listen to. While I was working in Edinburgh last year there […]
Continue readingOne Two, One Two, is it working?
So, mid July 2008, and I figured that I should add my two pence to the general background noise that is the blogosphere. This site should sit alongside my two other sites, Black Chrome and mallorn.net – I like triangles… gives a sense of wossname… symmetry. UPDATE – as you can see, Ive decided to […]
Continue readingBurma (Myanmar)
We learn about the hierarchy of needs but never really experience it.
Continue readingHello world!
In early 2008 I decided to recreate mallorn.net as a more dynamic website, partly as an experiment in using the wordpress engine. So, umm… here it is… enjoy. Bob
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