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en the mood takes me but am i such a devoted print lover as to allocate a whole day to a book the answer must be no am i missing out then might there be bigger rewards if i were a situation that had me agreeably questioning myself pure gold by roderick robinson at march 25 2026 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday 25 february 2026 gather ye comfort where ye may this post does not break the vow i made under which it concerns me not vr i visit her regularly and find myself comparing my current way of life lonely but free to do whatever i wish with hers seated and surrounded by inarticulacy and or other forms of suffering associated with this terrible illness leaving me feeling guilty the manageress of the nursing home says you are not alone both my daughters are distant and i am regularly in touch by phone both are immensely supportive i mention this feeling of guilt but point out the word is inexact guilt implies self blame and i am not responsible for vr s illness wouldn t grief be a better word one suggests it would and strangely this greater precision helps me the joy of getting language right and with almost unbelievable timing an email arrives from a local computer repair service which used teamviewer host software ie temporarily taking over the running of my pc from an office three miiles away to cure a connection problem at the time i was impressed by this very civilised way of doing business and said so would i therefore write them a review i would but i told them it would not take the form of most reviews apparently composed by the company owner s sycophant quite quite different i was surprised they posted it but they did and they say it attracted over fifty viewings lessons learned stay clear of clichés think before pressing the first key revel in language s ultimate potential by roderick robinson at february 25 2026 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday 19 february 2026 the authorial maze i started writing my current novel rictangular lenses in early september 2016 there have been year long gaps to the point where you might have thought i d lost interest altogether brother sir hugh pointed out i started learning to sing the same year early january and there is no doubt i was absorbed by this new turning point in my life on the other hand i ve been writing fiction since i was 11 the year 1946 do the forties have any resonance for anyone who reads tone deaf i may not have written rl continuously but its existence nagged at me in lindsay i d created the toughest of all the women who dominate my other four novels she gives men hell and i ve loved devising these torments perhaps deep down i m an unrevealed masochist there was no way i d let her drop into oblivion during the last six months i ve resumed writing rl and i m up to 75 181 words for those who can t envisage what that means an average medium length novel probably tops out at about 100 000 words but here s a thing creating rl has stretched over a decade and there s no doubt even discounting learning to sing during that period i ve changed as a person and thereby as an author i m not sure i ever knew how rl would end but i ve just completed a totally unexpected conversation between lindsay and a concert pianist which must surely change the plot in a big way how i m not sure but then i m kind of sure am i being irritating cast your mind over the biographies of all the novel writers you ve read many have been downright peculiar some close to criminal it s not a job for healthy minds by roderick robinson at february 19 2026 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest sunday 1 february 2026 which veronica now lives in a nursing home yesterday i visited her there for the first time i do not intend to write directly about this matter again not because the subject is too raw too difficult or too personal i ve written for a living and i ve tackled those adjectives before rather because it would be pointless at the present core of our 65 year old marriage is a dilemma a word that s often misused too casually it is much more than a sticky how s your father google puts it rather pungently a challenging situation requiring a choice between two or more equally undesirable unfavourable or mutually exclusive alternatives often a no win occasionally at three o clock of a morning i reckon i ve cracked it but it s fool s gold one cannot do anything about the passage of time whatever h g wells postulated to explain the dilemma would be easy enough if wordy but as i say pointless and that s what brits call a full stop and north americans a period by roderick robinson at february 01 2026 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday 27 january 2026 a rather sadder message veronica my wife of 65 years now lives in a nursing home i find myself incomplete and must get used to another kind of life by roderick robinson at january 27 2026 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest sunday 4 january 2026 best kind of new year message click image to enlarge by roderick robinson at january 04 2026 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday 29 december 2025 ai helps out and i m amazed this year s christmas brought modern day magic but i was merely a bystander here we go when it comes to sound reproduction chez robinson i m incredibly finicky not surprising really given that most installed tv loudspeakers are about the size of a packet of cigarettes not much hope for the music generated by say a double bass so i have a pair of triple speaker hi fi units properly spaced for stereo reproduction but that s just a start i also have a set up which electronically improves the signal that is the heart of the music or whatever i m playing step up the marantz amplifier which cost me 500 676 fifteen years ago and no this amp doesn t just make things louder or quieter it compensates for poor quality of live broadcasts and for recordings made in riveting shops also in my case it adjusts itself to the different circuitry of the smart tv the dvd player a dell laptop fed by a chip on to which all the music from my old lps and cds was transferred and two pairs of hi fi stereo headphones plus lots of other stuff which i can hardly spell there is a price to pay for all this adaptability the marantz is shockingly complicated to use as was confirmed when one of our christmas party used their smartphone to control the amp yes it did that all right but getting it back to normalcy was an absolute bastard hours passed this was boxing day december 26 and the night before had ended round about 4 am finally daughter occasional speeder who d mumbled that she d got some ideas re the marantz awoke from a deep sleep and addressed the problem it took some time but finally the sound system blared but how what could be more fashionable than ai even so it was pretty slick work the initial problem with the marantz was spelled out by os on her phone screen then os merely photographed the phone screen and presented the image as a request for help to something like chatbot and ai then recommended the next step step taken another photograph and another recommendation and so on things weren t all that easy at first but ai sensed os s difficulties and urged her to keep on trucking she admitted she was grateful for this i reckoned os deserved the best southern rhone red i had in my wine rack by roderick robinson at december 29 2025 7 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest older posts home subscribe to comments atom search this blog about me roderick robinson hereford united kingdom newspaper and magazine journalist in england and the states renounced west riding birthright in 1959 retired 1995 view my complete profile blog archive 2026 6 march 1 navel inspection 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physical deterioration the two homelands collection starts in a german men s urinal then widens out after all a soccer field s very emptiness might well imply the roar of the fans speaking of which try beautiful game brought low or for a change a godless man forced to contribute to a religious ceremony matins from the front themes how about the rich language of working people in the usa those whom the economy has chewed and spat out technology and its fancies sport unexpectedly stories should act as a spotlight if raw material persists chances are it deserves illumination this is two homelands intentions 298 pp click on front cover pic for amazon details opening bars singing at eighty and beyond roderick robinson retirement s fine until old age closes down your options first ski ing went then distance swimming gardening never appealed music yes but listening wasn t enough everyone has a voice so why not sing but at eighty this is the story of how far one man got in eighteen months touching base with mozart schubert and britten en route finding a teacher who agreed that at eighty he might not have enough time to absorb musical theory from ground zero coping with ancient lungs that tended to run out of puff overcoming rhythmic incompetence which once saw him dance a quickstep to the blue danube learning to decode and love the printed score bursting into tears when he temporarily wore sarastro s robes best of all finding his own singing voice i m hooked how about you aaarghhh rechecking chapter 11 up to date in preparation for the kindle version i find i have confused two magic flute characters names papageno the bird catcher and papagena his eventual mate too late to correct the book alas please please forgive 138 pp paperback 6 95 kindle download 2 16 uk readers cl ick front cover above to learn more and order us readers click here to learn more and order click here for opening bars extracts out of arizona a novel roderick robinson in the usa if your face is not your fortune a plane cockpit is one place to hide it when a major love affair goes sour jana nordmeyer moves to europe and continues to fly professionally in south west france the blemish that reduced her to a foreigner among her fellow americans is absorbed by a new culture and she emerges capable of accepting and finally providing emotional support 364 pp paperback kindle download prices vary according to amazon uk readers click front cover image above to learn more and to order us readers click here to learn more and to order click here for out of arizona extracts now available gorgon times a novel roderick robinson it s 1990 a bad year if you make things for a living andrew hatch once had status and a salary as a production manager now in damon runyon s words he does the best he can clare kepler a high flyer in the cleaner world of systems and electronics seems insulated from the labour market but she too faces unexpected change work makes us what we are being out of work can be a visit to the abyss gorgon tim...