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This "Media Monday" is turning out to be more and more of a misnomer. Still watching nothing at all, bar old episodes of Top Of The Pops courtesy of the iPlayer. 1981 has segued into 1982; and whilst the former was wall to wall Adam and the Ants and Shakin' Stevens, 1982 has given me three weeks at number one for Tight Fit with The Lion Sleeps Tonight, followed by three weeks of the Goombay Dance Band and Seven Tears. Oh eighties. Where did your cool go?! (Although I've developed a sneaking fondness for Seven Tears). Over in 1985, Gary Davies has reached peak hair, Kid Jensen has abandoned me for ITV, and Janice Long and Peter Powell are supposed to be pretending that they're not an item. The music has hair nearly as big as Gary Davies's, and I can amuse myself spotting the acts that have managed to survive long enough to make both eras. 1982-5 is a long time in pop music.
Books! Currently reading Ian Mortimer's The Time Traveller's Guide To Elizabethan England, although I've not finished the first chapter yet. Promising though. I like his writing style, and he clearly knows his stuff. I recommended the last one in the series, and you all turned out to have already read it! But this one looks like a good sequel, in case I've beaten some of you to it this time. A couple of books back, I read another one by the same author, Ten Centuries Of Change, which examines the progression of human society under such headings as transport, science and technology, medicine, etc, over the last thousand years. Good book.
I also read a very good book called Forensics, by Val McDermid, who apparently writes whodunnits as her day job (gloomy modern ones though, so I've not read any of them). Forensics examines the use of science in crime investigation, including DNA, fingerprinting, computing, and a host of other techniques. Interesting stuff, and she makes it all really readable, with some fascinating case studies, both historical and modern. Not for everybody, I appreciate that, although she does keep the gory stuff to a minimum!
Think that's everything. Don't get snowed in tonight. :)
Books! Currently reading Ian Mortimer's The Time Traveller's Guide To Elizabethan England, although I've not finished the first chapter yet. Promising though. I like his writing style, and he clearly knows his stuff. I recommended the last one in the series, and you all turned out to have already read it! But this one looks like a good sequel, in case I've beaten some of you to it this time. A couple of books back, I read another one by the same author, Ten Centuries Of Change, which examines the progression of human society under such headings as transport, science and technology, medicine, etc, over the last thousand years. Good book.
I also read a very good book called Forensics, by Val McDermid, who apparently writes whodunnits as her day job (gloomy modern ones though, so I've not read any of them). Forensics examines the use of science in crime investigation, including DNA, fingerprinting, computing, and a host of other techniques. Interesting stuff, and she makes it all really readable, with some fascinating case studies, both historical and modern. Not for everybody, I appreciate that, although she does keep the gory stuff to a minimum!
Think that's everything. Don't get snowed in tonight. :)