Tweet nothings ..

According to the 'stats' I have now been 'on' Twitter for five years and put out an astonishing 7,279 tweets! With calculator to hand I've just worked out that that's an average of 3.988 tweets per day and I'd like to know, five years on, just what the bloody hell I've been going on about! What words of wisdom, wit and ..well, who knows? .. I've been broadcasting around the world in all that time..

I had a world-audience on Saturday. A family had gathered together for a group portrait session but two members were missing, as an aunt and uncle live in Australia. Thanks to technology they spent their whole evening - as it was in Oz - watching the proceedings via Skype and a laptop. I even put the screen in the shot and then took a close-up of the far-flung couple to include them in the family photo! Ain't technology wunnerful? Later that day I got a message from the 'Grandad' of the family group. "Photos are bloody brilliant mate" it said. Now that's something to tweet about! ..

Heaven knows I'm (not) miserable now ..

On a good day I can be up and have three of my old Kodachrome slides spotted before breakfast and today was no exception but, just as I was wallowing in the memories of a back-pack trip round Oz, came the reminder - on Facebook, inevitably - that it's 30 years to the day since The Smiths' first album came out. OMG! 30 years! Thirty years? Where has 30 years gone? Thirty years!! OMG!..

Yes, it came as quite a shock! It goes without saying, though, that the LP still sounds absolutely brilliant! I'm playing it as I write. It's as fresh and exciting and with just as much hair-raising-on-the-back-of-the-neck .. ness as it had when I picked it up as a 23 year old Manchester whippersnapper.
(And yes, I did call it an LP on purpose!) Oh, Morrissey...

Ahum! So, I took a bus to Nullarbor, in South Australia, 'cos I was really interested in seeing what was out there, in the middle of nowhere. Do you know what's out there? Nothing! You're in the middle of nowhere. Pretty much like the music scene before The Smiths, eh?...