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Monthly Archives May 2009

Food, USA

I feel sick. I am fighting against a desire to vomit - fighting it, because I’m walking across town, maybe 20 minutes from my hotel, and I feel better about vomiting in the hotel bathroom than vomiting here in the street in a strange town.
The problem is food, USA style. I haven’t really enjoyed any […]

Posted 21 May 2009 † John Mansfield § Normal ‡ Comments (1) °

Voodoo Ray

12 July 1989. As “house” music emerges into the mainstream, Smash Hits magazine struggles to wrestle it into its established formats.

Posted 19 May 2009 † John Mansfield § Normal ‡ Comments (0) °

USA

Arrived in Boston late evening, almost midnight by the time I got through border control. Annoyingly, they let US citizens pass through super-quick, while all foreigners have to wait in a massive cue for 45 minutes.
In UK time, which might supposedly define my bio-clock, it was 4am by the time I got to the hotel. […]

Posted 18 May 2009 † John Mansfield § Normal ‡ Comments (0) °

Cutting-edge technology

I’ve finally got a digital camera (again)!

… and more at my flickr page.

Posted 17 May 2009 † John Mansfield § Normal ‡ Comments (0) °

Violent words

Last night I had to chair an acrimonious meeting at the Allotment Association. Under discussion was a neighbourhood dispute that has been simmering away for years, and which recently boiled over into strong words, exchanged (heaven forbid) on the allotment property.
Trying to chair and keep control of this petty, ridiculous meeting was one of the […]

Posted 12 May 2009 † John Mansfield § Normal ‡ Comments (1) °

London

On Thursday I met someone in a bar who talked a lot about how she is moving to London in six weeks. “I’ve always wanted to live in London,” she said, “it’s been a dream for me since I was seventeen. I’m thirty-two now and I’ve still never lived there, so I think it’s time.”
Like […]

Posted 04 May 2009 † John Mansfield § Normal ‡ Comments (0) °