footie's blog

We're all going on a summer holiday - no more Nottingham for a week or two :-)

I received a mailshot today informing me that, after over a decade in the making, the New Dictionary of National Biography is due to be published on 23 September 2004. Without doubt, it is a major achievement, and will be a fantastic resource, but ...

... why make it so expensive & inaccessible ?

I have just found out that my saxophone - a Selmer Cigar Cutter - has just passed its 70th birthday.

Welcome to our weblog - I'm pretty chuffed just to have got this thing working - let alone thinking of something appropriate to write for a first entry.