Alan Reed

The way that it is.. I want to talk about money.. Yes, real folding stuff. Beer tokens. The little ones and zeroes in your bank account. It may seem to some that I’m being mercenary, but I am not the only member of the…

It’s here btw! 3hobbitsblog.wordpress.com/2026/02/10/t...

I ‘ve blogged again!

February announcement Photo Credit: Mark Harris Photography So now you know about what I’ve been planning for September. Truth be told I thought long and hard about whether to play gigs or not, given my diagnosis and no…

I’ve blogged again..

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February announcement Photo Credit: Mark Harris Photography So now you know about what I’ve been planning for September. Truth be told I thought long and hard about whether to play gigs or not, given my diagnosis and no…

I’ve blogged again ..

3hobbitsblog.wordpress.com/2026/02/03/f...

I have lotss of news. Look out for Monday the 2nd of February!!

Album Of The Day Truth by Jeff Beck

#1001albums day 4: Jeff Beck: Truth: 1968. A real classic, Jeff's first solo album post Yardbirds, heavily featuring Rod Stewart and Ronnie Wood, this is a great heavy blues-rock album. I've got the expanded CD reissue to listen to today, lots of bonus tracks.

2025 and all that. So I find myself lying in bed having missed the festivities but unable to sleep. So I think about the year gone past and all my hopes and fears. 2025 started well enough My son chose to take a sabb…

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Yep. I have been diagnosed with Parkinson’s. My right hand has closed up like a claw.

Once more into the breach… So I’ve started the process of working on the final stages of the “third, difficult,” solo album. I haven’t got much to show for it yet – apart from getting most of the files from one compute…

I’ve blogged again:

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It’s the run-up to Christmas!!! So here we are.. We just did PBX4 at the Drygate in Glasgow.  It was a good gig – if not my best technically.  The band  battled all sorts of monitoring issues , but I’m told i…

I’ve blogged again. This time about what’s coming up.

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It's disgraceful that Rachel Reeves didn't take any questions from GB News! The fact that they claim to not be a news channel every time Ofcom find they have breached impartiality rules shouldn't stop them from pretending they are a news channel whenever it suits them.

YouTube video by Turner Classic Movies The Dictator’s Speech (Clip) | The Great Dictator (1940) | TCM

For this week's #ThursdayFilmRec 🗃️🎥🍿🎬 #HATM

Watch (or Rewatch) the ever relevant, courageous, classic film: "The Great Dictator" (1940) - Dir. Charlie Chaplin

www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0Cz...

Where I’m at I have a gig on 29th of November. At Drygate in Glasgow.  We’ll doing it with Also Eden, Abel Ganz and Solstice. Now many of you will rejoice at this.  I know I will – onc…

I’ve blogged again. 3hobbitsblog.wordpress.com/2025/11/12/w...

Anybody who had a vision to bring American levels of political, cultural and social polarisation to Britain - whether their motive was clicks or cash, ideology, boredom or anything else - would make it their top strategic priority to abolish the BBC, or to damage and diminish it at the very least

Nice to see he’s still going strong. Just like his namesake band in Glasgow (that I was once part of).

Voting results from the AGM Read about the National Trust's 2025 Annual General Meeting and the results from the day.

National Trust council elections saw a defeat for the Restore Trust campaign.

35k members voted to re-elect a slate of council candidates endorsed by the nominations committee

12k - 13.5k voted for candidates on Restore Trust slate

Non-slate candidated
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...

the dudes from Kraftwerk probably hesitating every time this cold world forces them to hit this button

What if dinner was public infrastructure? A Scottish charity wants to reintroduce state-subsidised diners for all—potentially a big ask in the current political climate.

A charity is gaining momentum pushing for state-subsidised diners to be reintroduced across the UK to improve access to affordable, healthy, and climate-friendly food.

Not everyone is convinced, however, that there's a chance in the current political climate.

My latest for Sower ⬇️

BBC 'deeply concerned' about journalist unable to leave Vietnam The journalist has been in Vietnam for several months while authorities have withheld their renewed passport.

BBC 'deeply concerned' about journalist unable to leave Vietnam www.bbc.com/news/article...

We raised the matter with the planning committee who refused a change of use on those grounds. However the owner appealed directly to the Scottish government who approved it in part. So we now have no pub, and an owner who says he doesn’t want to run one!

Movers and Shakers: Bexhill's battlers Breaking news: Parliament to debate Parky Charter petition on November 17th

open.substack.com/pub/rorycell... This week’s episode of #Movers&Shakers celebrates the local heroes who got our #ParkyPetition over the 100000 signatures line which triggers a Parliamentary debate. And..#BREAKING NEWS that debate will take place on November 17th

We had an ‘unofficial’ pub night in the village. Our last proper pub was subject to being sold off and is now being changed to accommodation. Tonight shows us how much we miss it

Poster for PB4X 25 at Glasgow, Drygate

We’ll be playing this BTW. If you’re in Glasgow at the end of November then come see the Daughters!!

Remember when Obama wore a tan suit?

No chance 😂

Millions join anti-Trump 'No Kings' protests across US The demonstrations against the US president - which Republicans had called

Meanwhile, in the USA

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A mugshot registration photograph from Auschwitz. A man with a shaved head wearing a striped uniform photographed in three positions (profile and front with bare head and a photo with a slightly turned head with a hat on). The prisoner number is visible on a marking board on the left.

19 October 1894 | A Pole, Piotr Harciarek, was born in Pajęczno. A baker.

In #Auschwitz from 26 November 1941.
No. 23267
He perished in the camp on 14 March 1942.
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Online lesson "Poles at KL Auschwitz”: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_2020_06_polacy/

I wasn’t a fan of Kiss or Frehley, but it somehow feels proper to mark his passing.

KISS founding guitarist Ace Frehley dies aged 74 Bandmates Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley have paid tribute to an "irreplaceable rock soldier".

KISS founding guitarist Ace Frehley dies aged 74 www.bbc.com/news/article...