October 2025

📣 Podcast

The wait is over! London author Christopher Winn has finished editing my rambling talk about being a cabbie when we met in Romford’s Golden Lion pub. TimeTable London uploads a new podcast fortnightly featuring guests a lot more interesting and knowledgeable than this humble scribe. Here’s my contribution.

🔪 Taking it easy

I’ve been banging on for months about my procedure to correct an inguinal hernia. October was spent convalescing, so this month’s Musings are rather truncated.

📖 The Trembling Lady

At least these past few weeks have not been wasted. Finally, I’ve finished the next Shelter Sleuths Investigation and am now on the line editing.

👀 1984

As they had it out on display, last month I picked up George Orwell’s dystopian masterpiece in Waterstones. They clearly thought it was prescient. Since then, the Government has announced the imposition of ID cards. It seems the bookseller was right.

📺 Riot Women

It comes to most of us, but midlife invisibility is much worse for women, along with family responsibilities, being taken for granted, at the same time as undergoing hormonal changes. Sally Wainwright’s brilliant depiction of a group forming a ‘girl’ rock band, endeavouring to get noticed, is brilliant. Even this uncomprehending man could understand the problems and the humour.

📅 October’s posts and pages

Most read post – Buying a black cab as a private car
Most read page – The Knowledge

📈 Last month’s statistics

3,415 views (+131.5%)
1,214 visitors (+66.8%)
42 likes (+27.3%)
52 comments (+108.0%)
15 posts (-16.7%)