Ooh me plums

Plum blossom

Pushbike

Leaf

A timely reminder to check out The Leaf Label, home to some great music including Murcof, Efterklang, Polar Bear and the wonderfully named Vladislav Delay.

Artist's impression

An artist's impression of what it probably won't look like at the Gloucestershire county cricket ground at Nevil Road: The club resubmitted development plans to Bristol City Council this week, having previously been refused planning permission.

www.bbc.co.uk

Purple heart

Hoveyda's watch

Oddly, I'm just waiting for a BBC political correspondent in Washington DC to phone. No, I haven't gone off my head or decided that blogging about repainting my allotment shed is so banal that I need to invent something, nor does the BBC in Washington need my insight into the Republican Party primaries.

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And there he was, on the other end of the line, sounding a little bit like a Christopher or Peter Hitchens, responding to the email with my home phone number within ten minutes of me sending it, ever the hardworking hack.

The story starts with an Iranian in Paris in 1941, moves on to Marylebone Road in the mid '70s, falters in Croydon and ends in Nottingham in 1981. The call from Washington DC is merely an epilogue, a testament to the effort that some journalists are willing to expend in correcting errors in previously published articles.

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UPDATE: 14.03.2012 :
The remainder of the original post has been removed for the time being as the story and its epilogue develop. For more information follow the links below and if you're curious, get in touch.


BBC News - The 'Iranian Schindler' who saved Jews from the Nazis

'In the Lion's Shadow' - Fariborz L. Mokhtari

'In the Lion's Shadow' - Reviews: Amazon.co.uk

Improvements

The builders next door have been making some improvements. Can't quite see what they've changed in the garden since I used to look after it for Irene. Perhaps your eagle eyes can spot the difference.


Before


After

I bet the ground elder comes back though. 'Tis a persistent weed. Watch this space.

Up and coming

Woven

Wide awake on the Keynsham bypass

Rays Bright

(Ray Bright; Australian, slow left-arm, 7-87 v Pakistan 1979/80)

Sugarlump Saturday

The latest in a series of tracks - sketches/demos - produced in no more than a day. The time restraint is partly due to software instability, the builders next door and a nod to creative constraints similar to the Dogme 95 filmmakers.

Due to an unavoidable upgrade to a Macbook Pro running Mac OS Lion, the only music software to be relied upon, after multiple crashes of Ableton Live, is now Logic 9. If its stability continues and the builders put down their drills, time constraints may be relaxed.

Cusp

January sails

Not a chance

Intermittent glitch

Other people's computer problems are a little like other people's dreams. For the person who experiences them they can be frustrating, absorbing, difficult and time consuming to resolve, if not ultimately impossible, with the best option being to move on and look for the next one. People who want to hear about them are few and far between and some of those who don't glaze over or leave the room might attempt to make helpful suggestions but interpretations and solutions are varied, multiple and confusing.

Leeking

Easton sunsets

Cheese for supper

Fuelled by an addiction to cutting up beats and speech, a bit of lunacy, even by standards usually heard here.

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Alternatively, they can be downloaded for free direct from here.

Song for Irene