"Rob" archive
Wednesday 25 March 2009
- Robert Millar - Tour de France 1983 Stage 10 (19:32) - I've spent the last week with my nose in Richard Moore's book: In Search of Robert Millar. It's a sad-making life story of the greatest British racing cyclist. I call him that despite a decade following his performances with increasing...
Thursday 29 January 2009
- Go Down Easy, John Martyn (20:31) - John Martyn created a music that was all his own: fitting his personality like a pair of worn-in shoes; slavishly-imitated but never matched. In the ramshackle recent years his physical deterioration was sad to watch but the passion in his...
Sunday 16 September 2007
- Appearing Now at the Underachievers Stage (08:55) - The WOMUD festival this year featured a new 'Under a Tree' stage. With my innate ability to mis-hear public announcements (does anyone else hear that message in Sainsbury's: "cleaner to aisle 8 for a wet spinach") this filtered through to...
Tuesday 28 February 2006
- The Perfumed Garden (21:50) - I've alluded previously to my great debt to John Peel. For several years in my teens I listened with religious devotion to Peel's show. Finger poised on the pause button of my reel-to-reel, I recorded anything that piqued my interest....
Wednesday 1 February 2006
- "Gotta get through January, gotta get through February..." (22:08) - January is bitter. It sometimes feels as if you spend the month locked in a darkened room. 3 foot square. Fed on nothing but white bread. Nothing ever happens. The exception is when something bad happens. Perhaps it was the...
Sunday 8 January 2006
- Kimmeridge Bay, Dorset (16:11) - A few photos from our wonderful walk in Dorset on December 28th....
Sunday 25 December 2005
- 2005 Music Awards (21:28) - With two four-hour drives a week during the latter part of this year, I've had plenty of time to listen to music. 5 am at Sutton Scotney can be a surprisingly evocative time and place, and some of the most...
Thursday 24 November 2005
- A turn-up for the books (22:54) - Yesterday morning, while holding a meeting in the light and airy atrium of my client's office, I glanced towards the floor, and spotted a small bulldog clip in my trouser turn-up. Yesterday evening, while changing into warm clothes in preparation...
Sunday 13 November 2005
- Simon said it for all of us ... (11:55) - ... here....
Wednesday 2 November 2005
- Letter from Chester (21:00) - Updates have been scarce lately, and it's not for lack of material. The late summer festivals and many nice family outings went unreported. Rather, it's our old friend, procrastination, and a sense of inadequacy when I read the well-turned phrases...
Saturday 13 August 2005
- Morocco photos (10:49) - I've added new photos to the library, from our Family Adventure in Morocco back in June. This was the first outing for Caroline's new Canon EOS350D. Caroline took some great landscapes. I took a lot of pictures of blokes....
Sunday 24 July 2005
- Glastonbury photos appear (15:45) - After the customary pause for procrastination, a small set of photos from this year's Glastonbury festival are now posted in the photo library. Another festival dominated by the weather, though some of our camp site neighbours seemed to revel in...
Monday 9 May 2005
- Dink's Song (22:23) - So I was listening today to Jeff Buckley - Live at Sin-é and he took me off on a little ethno-musicologist wandering. If you don't know it, this is an extended recording of one of Jeff's solo shows at a...
Sunday 24 April 2005
- New photos - Longleat (23:02) - I'm working my way back through unpublished photos -- highlights from our trips to the Longleat estate and Centerparcs are now in the photo library....
Saturday 9 April 2005
- My eyes are dim... (11:58) - A few years back, when we took Clara for a new pair of specs, she persuaded me to get my eyes tested. She was tired of watching me squint at the small print, and, in the unselfconcious way of small...
Monday 28 March 2005
- Easter Sunday, St. Catherine's Hill (00:27) -
Friday 4 March 2005
- The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel (02:02) - "A record made from nothing but other records?" writes Frank Broughton on his djhistory.com site. The innovations that this record introduced have become so commonplace that it almost sounds clichéd: the Good Times riff, the scratching and 'found' recordings. But... Posted at March 4, 2005 02:02 AM by rob in Music , Rob , Vinyl Countdown | Comments (0)
- The Vinyl Countdown (01:06) - A hoarder, me; I have a cupboard filled with about 500 LPs and probably an equal number of 7" and 12" singles. Caroline is constantly telling me they are an anchor, mooring us in the dock of clutter. And I...
Sunday 27 February 2005
- South Africa photos finally complete (18:35) - Yes, at long last, I have completed editing our holiday photographs from South Africa (that's right, our holiday in October/November last year!) You can view them here....
Sunday 6 February 2005
- An outrage against simple men (21:20) - This evening I will begin publishing a series of articles written by my Dad, Tony Jordan, a history of the Gallipoli campaign of 1915. It's a very personal account: Dad's father miraculously survived one of the bloodiest landings of this...
Saturday 5 February 2005
- Thank God that's over (02:22) - If you're reading this, there's a good chance that our migration to a new web host has completed successfully. Though not without incident. I clumsily deleted all articles during the transition, and had to reconstitute from various bits of backup,...
Sunday 30 January 2005
- I'm all lost in the supermarket (00:50) - You're looking at a fragment of our weekly shopping list. Note the colour-coding for different sections of the store, the aisle numbers in the left-hand column, even the sub-aisles denoted by a proto Dewey decimal system of groceries. I know...
Friday 21 January 2005
- Marshall Plan: What Plan? (11:28) - If you squint your eyes a bit, you can blur out modern-day bourgeois Winchester, its preoccupation with property prices and the frequency of trains to Waterloo. What's left is a vibrant medieval city, which often claims to be the historic...
Friday 14 January 2005
- Keeping up appearances (15:15) - Someone visited the site using a Netscape 4.7 browser. I know this looks hideous; unusable actually. It feels like meeting a friend in Sainsbury's on a Saturday morning, when you're unshaven and with greasy hair. Actually it's worse than that....
Wednesday 12 January 2005
- One Morning (21:31) - Before Christmas, Dervala and I discovered a shared relish for Emmylou Harris's Wrecking Ball album. It's a quiet masterpiece, Daniel Lanois' luminous production cradling a clutch of fine songs from a generation of great writers: Steve Earle, Gillian Welch, Lucinda...
Wednesday 5 January 2005
- On Hyndford Street (09:05) - Walking out, gloved and hatted against the chill January darkness, leaving behind the Golden Mile, Belfast?s cosmopolitan, Victorian-yet-modern commercial heart, still lit with Christmas decorations. Crossing the Albert Bridge by the Central Railway Station, heading east and turning right on...
Friday 31 December 2004
- 2004 music awards (18:18) - It's the time of year when thoughts turn to favourite music, at least for those afflicted (as I am) with Hornby's Syndrome, an unhealthy desire to classify, evaluate and reduce great art to numbers and lists. I've not been on...
Tuesday 28 December 2004
- Like Anne Robinson ... (21:12) - ... Jordan-Maynard.org has had a major face-lift. Now using a web log format built upon Movable Type, rather than the oh-so-tired 1999 photo navigator. The intention is to spur more spontaneous updates from the whole family. The old format was...
Sunday 26 December 2004
- About (02:11) - Jordan-Maynard.org is a non-profit organisation dedicated to exploiting leading-edge technology in pursuit of procrastination. Child-rearing is a core activity, though not necessarily a core competence. While the organisation is engaged in onerous labour for much of the year, we do... Posted at December 26, 2004 02:11 AM by rob in Rob
Saturday 1 February 2003
- Brother marks kindness of former enemy (16:57) - A story about Rob's Dad... A Coventry kid whose elder brother was killed when his ship was torpedoed in the Second World War is to put up his name on a brass plaque ... alongside that of a Commander of...
- About (02:11) - Jordan-Maynard.org is a non-profit organisation dedicated to exploiting leading-edge technology in pursuit of procrastination. Child-rearing is a core activity, though not necessarily a core competence. While the organisation is engaged in onerous labour for much of the year, we do...
- Like Anne Robinson ... (21:12) - ... Jordan-Maynard.org has had a major face-lift. Now using a web log format built upon Movable Type, rather than the oh-so-tired 1999 photo navigator. The intention is to spur more spontaneous updates from the whole family. The old format was...
- 2004 music awards (18:18) - It's the time of year when thoughts turn to favourite music, at least for those afflicted (as I am) with Hornby's Syndrome, an unhealthy desire to classify, evaluate and reduce great art to numbers and lists. I've not been on...
- On Hyndford Street (09:05) - Walking out, gloved and hatted against the chill January darkness, leaving behind the Golden Mile, Belfast?s cosmopolitan, Victorian-yet-modern commercial heart, still lit with Christmas decorations. Crossing the Albert Bridge by the Central Railway Station, heading east and turning right on...
- One Morning (21:31) - Before Christmas, Dervala and I discovered a shared relish for Emmylou Harris's Wrecking Ball album. It's a quiet masterpiece, Daniel Lanois' luminous production cradling a clutch of fine songs from a generation of great writers: Steve Earle, Gillian Welch, Lucinda...
- Keeping up appearances (15:15) - Someone visited the site using a Netscape 4.7 browser. I know this looks hideous; unusable actually. It feels like meeting a friend in Sainsbury's on a Saturday morning, when you're unshaven and with greasy hair. Actually it's worse than that....
- Marshall Plan: What Plan? (11:28) - If you squint your eyes a bit, you can blur out modern-day bourgeois Winchester, its preoccupation with property prices and the frequency of trains to Waterloo. What's left is a vibrant medieval city, which often claims to be the historic...
- I'm all lost in the supermarket (00:50) - You're looking at a fragment of our weekly shopping list. Note the colour-coding for different sections of the store, the aisle numbers in the left-hand column, even the sub-aisles denoted by a proto Dewey decimal system of groceries. I know...
- Thank God that's over (02:22) - If you're reading this, there's a good chance that our migration to a new web host has completed successfully. Though not without incident. I clumsily deleted all articles during the transition, and had to reconstitute from various bits of backup,...
- An outrage against simple men (21:20) - This evening I will begin publishing a series of articles written by my Dad, Tony Jordan, a history of the Gallipoli campaign of 1915. It's a very personal account: Dad's father miraculously survived one of the bloodiest landings of this...
- The Vinyl Countdown (01:06) - A hoarder, me; I have a cupboard filled with about 500 LPs and probably an equal number of 7" and 12" singles. Caroline is constantly telling me they are an anchor, mooring us in the dock of clutter. And I...
- The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel (02:02) - "A record made from nothing but other records?" writes Frank Broughton on his djhistory.com site. The innovations that this record introduced have become so commonplace that it almost sounds clichéd: the Good Times riff, the scratching and 'found' recordings. But...
- Easter Sunday, St. Catherine's Hill (00:27) -
- My eyes are dim... (11:58) - A few years back, when we took Clara for a new pair of specs, she persuaded me to get my eyes tested. She was tired of watching me squint at the small print, and, in the unselfconcious way of small...
- New photos - Longleat (23:02) - I'm working my way back through unpublished photos -- highlights from our trips to the Longleat estate and Centerparcs are now in the photo library....
- Dink's Song (22:23) - So I was listening today to Jeff Buckley - Live at Sin-é and he took me off on a little ethno-musicologist wandering. If you don't know it, this is an extended recording of one of Jeff's solo shows at a...
- Glastonbury photos appear (15:45) - After the customary pause for procrastination, a small set of photos from this year's Glastonbury festival are now posted in the photo library. Another festival dominated by the weather, though some of our camp site neighbours seemed to revel in...
- Morocco photos (10:49) - I've added new photos to the library, from our Family Adventure in Morocco back in June. This was the first outing for Caroline's new Canon EOS350D. Caroline took some great landscapes. I took a lot of pictures of blokes....
- Letter from Chester (21:00) - Updates have been scarce lately, and it's not for lack of material. The late summer festivals and many nice family outings went unreported. Rather, it's our old friend, procrastination, and a sense of inadequacy when I read the well-turned phrases...
- Simon said it for all of us ... (11:55) - ... here....
- A turn-up for the books (22:54) - Yesterday morning, while holding a meeting in the light and airy atrium of my client's office, I glanced towards the floor, and spotted a small bulldog clip in my trouser turn-up. Yesterday evening, while changing into warm clothes in preparation...
- 2005 Music Awards (21:28) - With two four-hour drives a week during the latter part of this year, I've had plenty of time to listen to music. 5 am at Sutton Scotney can be a surprisingly evocative time and place, and some of the most...
- Kimmeridge Bay, Dorset (16:11) - A few photos from our wonderful walk in Dorset on December 28th....
- "Gotta get through January, gotta get through February..." (22:08) - January is bitter. It sometimes feels as if you spend the month locked in a darkened room. 3 foot square. Fed on nothing but white bread. Nothing ever happens. The exception is when something bad happens. Perhaps it was the...
- The Perfumed Garden (21:50) - I've alluded previously to my great debt to John Peel. For several years in my teens I listened with religious devotion to Peel's show. Finger poised on the pause button of my reel-to-reel, I recorded anything that piqued my interest....
- Appearing Now at the Underachievers Stage (08:55) - The WOMUD festival this year featured a new 'Under a Tree' stage. With my innate ability to mis-hear public announcements (does anyone else hear that message in Sainsbury's: "cleaner to aisle 8 for a wet spinach") this filtered through to...
- Go Down Easy, John Martyn (20:31) - John Martyn created a music that was all his own: fitting his personality like a pair of worn-in shoes; slavishly-imitated but never matched. In the ramshackle recent years his physical deterioration was sad to watch but the passion in his...