January 2016
January 31, 2016
Ballyhoo Eventide. Bring Back Saint Blaise’s Festival headline band. Record Cafe
Posted by bradwan under UncategorizedLeave a Comment
January 31, 2016
Bring Back Saint Blaise’s Festival starts. The beer launch at Record Cafe
Posted by bradwan under UncategorizedLeave a Comment
January 29, 2016
I was on BCB yesterday advertising my stuff and the bars on North Parade
Posted by bradwan under Uncategorized1 Comment
I am on 35 minutes into this podcast. Salamander Brewery, The Record Cafe and The Sparrow, as well my shows this Sunday and Wednesday, get a free advert.
Bradford Community Broadcast podcast of The Afternoon Stretch
January 28, 2016
Finland, my mother’s country. Good at fighting wars, but this tank shows they can be bad at building weapons.
Posted by bradwan under UncategorizedLeave a Comment
Finland’s attempt at building a tank out of captures and free gifts.
The link is to a website that has 40 odd slide shows about tanks that fthat were more costly to the country that built them than they ever were to an enemy.
It is a fascinating set of alternative histories of nations. The French were the second ever country to build tanks, but spent the next 40 years building some right surrender monkey tanks! America in the last few decades seems to be good at making a few people with defence contacts rich, but totally useless at building weapons that are any better than what they were building 30 years ago!
The Finnish tank was made by sticking an almost useless British howitzer in a stupidly tall and dangerous turret, and sticking that on top of captured Soviet light tanks. Good words for the result include: big, slow, useless and deathtrap.
January 26, 2016
This is good in Bradford. Falafel 2 Go. Oastler Centre.
Posted by bradwan under UncategorizedLeave a Comment
Only £2.50 for a really tasty meal weighing over a pound! You must try it. It’s to the left if you enter through the John Street entrance.
January 25, 2016
No Saint Blaise’s walk this Sunday, but there may be a smaller event, and a shorter walk on the 6th Feb.
Posted by bradwan under UncategorizedLeave a Comment
I not been able to do any more work on the Bring Back Saint Blaise’s Festival walk, and time marches on, so I am compelled to cancel it.
I may, however, be doing a small event this Sunday linked to the first draw of St. Blaise’s Pale (brewed by Bradford’s own Salamander Brewery) at the Record Cafe.
The Saint Blaise’s Day show – Pie & Proud of Bradford – will be in the Sparrow on the 3rd (19.30).
I am also minded to do a shorter Blaise walk a week Saturday, on the 6th, if the show goes well.
January 23, 2016
Bring Backs Saint Blaise’s Festival Show. 3rd Feb.
Posted by bradwan under UncategorizedLeave a Comment
Bring Back Saint Blaise’s Festival Show.
Glyn Watkins’
PIE & PROUD OF BRADFORD
The Sparrow, 19.30. Weds 3rd Feb.
Pictures, Bradford tales, poems, pies.
Collection taken.
Celebrating Bradford’s forgotten saint.
January 21, 2016
I don’t often talk to my brother; apart from anything else reaching him by phone is so complicated I rarely bother; so it is mostly e-mails.
This morning, however, he rang me to check how I was.
The answer was: better but still weak. We then had a long, and helpful chat.
I had already wondered if the repeated infections with phlegm were caused by a deeper infection (as happen when I had pneumonia). I think not, but when Basil suggested the same I promised to see a doctor if I was still coughing next week.
After a bit more discussion I was surprised, and Basil was shocked, to discover I had not had a general health check for years! I regularly have diabetic checks, but those do not cover everything; and I am now so old that some of the unchecked things are a risk, including some that have killed forebears!
So I will be going to the doctor’s next week.
January 20, 2016
I have been too ill to do anything; but on the other hand I have been too ill to cancel anything.
January 18, 2016