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Trevor Moore - a Beagle contributor
Feb 2, 2023
A needle in a haystack
by Trevor Moore I expect that you have seen this picture (courtesy WA’s Department of Fire & Emergency Services) if you are a reader of...
Aug 30, 2021
Drummers, timekeeping and Charlie
By Trevor Moore There has been much comment over the last week about the death on 24 August 2021 of Charlie Watts, the Rollings Stones’...
Aug 28, 2021
Should we stay or should we go - a review
By Trevor Moore Should we stay or should we go Lionel Shriver, Borough Press, 2021, ISBN 978-0-00-845856-0, 266pp Lionel Shriver is...
Aug 13, 2021
Where do we want to be in 20 years?
By Trevor Moore A few days ago, there appeared on a couple of Facebook Groups a picture of what looks like a physical advertisement that...
Aug 6, 2021
Still Life : a review by Trevor Moore
Still Life Sarah Winman, 4th Estate, 2021, ISBN 978-0-00-828336-0, 438pp I had been reading too much (if that is possible) non-fiction...
Jul 14, 2021
Two unrelated books
By Trevor Moore Alexandria, Edmund Richardson, Bloomsbury, 978-1-5266-0381-4, 328pp Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro, Faber & Faber,...
Jun 4, 2021
A little bit of bottom: Leland Sklar at 74
By Trevor Moore I have had the pleasure - and sometimes the opposite - of playing in many bands over the last few decades. I have played...
Apr 26, 2021
The Kingsmen, The Kinks and trombones
By Trevor Moore The thing about pandemics, and I am making a generalisation here based on a sample size of one, which might make me a...
Nov 20, 2020
Fifty years on: Cat Stevens: Tea for the Tillerman
By Trevor Moore Above: Neil Mack will be featuring Tea For The Tillerman on his next show. Listen in. The thing about being a teenager...
Oct 24, 2020
Fifty years on by Trevor Moore
Fifty years on Elton John, Tumbleweed Connection This month, to be precise on 28 October 2020, my good friend Macman, known to his fans...
Oct 16, 2020
Trust - a review
Trust Chris Hammer, Allen & Unwin, 2020, ISBN 978-1-76087-741-5, 466pp a review by Trevor Moore Chris Hammer keeps himself under the...
Oct 16, 2020
Just Like You - a review
Just Like You Nick Hornby, Penguin Viking, 2020, ISBN 978-0-241-33857-5, 310pp A review by Trevor Moore Now, here’s a book from one of...
Sep 12, 2020
Fifty years on: Simon & Garfunkel
by Trevor Moore This month, on 16 September 2020 to be precise, my good friend Macman, a.k.a. Neil Mack will be tripping the light...
Sep 5, 2020
Victory in the Kitchen: The Life of Churchill’s Cook - a review
by Trevor Moore Victory in the Kitchen: The Life of Churchill’s Cook Annie Gray, Profile Books, 2020, ISBN 978-1-78816-044-5, 390pp...
Aug 31, 2020
The Catalpa Rescue - a review
by Trevor Moore The Catalpa Rescue Peter Fitzsimmons, Hachette, 2019, ISBN 978-0-7336-4124-4, 405pp I picked this book up at Moruya...
Aug 25, 2020
The Dictionary of Lost Words - a review
By Trevor Moore The Dictionary of Lost Words Pip Williams, Affirm Press, 2020, ISBN 9-781-9259-7259-7, 423pp My injunction that no one...
Aug 16, 2020
Fifty years on: Eric Clapton
By Trevor Moore https://open.spotify.com/album/3taJF5jtfoJZ3zDKJBu5zG?si=Koa6YyC1TrS-RRBzWgJeag In the autumn of 1967, on a wall in Arvon...
Aug 8, 2020
Peter Green, of course, but Emitt Rhodes?
By Trevor Moore Peter Green’s death made the news because, if you hadn’t heard of him, you had almost certainly heard of Fleetwood Mac...
Jul 27, 2020
Benevolence - a review
by Trevor Moore Benevolence Julie Janson, Magabala Books, ISBN978 1 9259 3663 3, 2020, 345pp Now, here’s a book that I would not normally...
Jul 20, 2020
Humankind: A hopeful history—a review
by Trevor Moore Rutger Bregman, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020, ISBN 978-14088-9894-9, 463pp I had been looking forward to reading Rutger...
Jul 11, 2020
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family and Defiance During the Blitz - a review
by Trevor Moore The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family and Defiance During the Blitz Erik Larson, 2020, ISBN...
Jun 29, 2020
Fifty years on: Traffic’s John Barleycorn Must Die
by Trevor Moore https://open.spotify.com/album/2TjodugH6rA5ZHPsWVErmw?si=XDIcaFL1RBygnku3NVKR4Q Our June “fifty years on” album was Rod...
Jun 12, 2020
Fifty years on: Rod Stewart and Gasoline Alley
by Trevor Moore Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/6FaMpsO2fif34ToEu1wLqf?si=6E2jiRLIQR6VpP1AJffPMw This is the first of a monthly...
Jun 5, 2020
The Bell in the Lake: a review
by Trevor Moore The Bell in the Lake Lars Mytting, MacLehose, 2020 (Gyldendal Norsk, 2018), ISBN 978 0 85705 938 3, 392pp This is Lars...
May 29, 2020
Who Dares Wins: Britain, 1979–1982 : a review
Who Dares Wins: Britain, 1979–1982 Dominic Sandbrook, Allen Lane, 2019, ISBN 978 1 846 14747 1, 900pp A hefty but enjoyable tome; the...
May 22, 2020
S F Sorrow and all that: Phil May of The Pretty Things
Any regular reader of these musings that’s out there (and I know there is at least one, for whom I am very grateful) will know that my...
May 13, 2020
Finger limes
It is the time of the season for finger limes. They have them at Southlands. There seem to be plenty of ideas about what to with these...
May 12, 2020
Rock of ages or ageing rockers
Rock of ages or ageing rockers We’re all getting old by Trevor Moore I was idly watching something mindless on Netflix last night when...
May 4, 2020
Sprouts and the game of life: John Horton Conway 1937 - 2020
by Trevor Moore Conway invented or helped invent much stuff to keep kids and mathematicians amused. Flexagons and Sprouts will keep kids...
Apr 26, 2020
Plus ça change - qui sait?
By Trevor Moore No one knows who first said something along the lines of “the only constant in life is change” but it was probably...
Apr 26, 2020
A Bigger Picture : review by Trevor Moore
A Bigger Picture Malcolm Turnbull, Hardie Grant Books, 2020, ISBN 9781743795637, 704pp A review by Trevor Moore I am not really sure why...
Apr 22, 2020
Plagues - part 2
by Trevor Moore The more one looks into the past the more one finds that what seems new, strange or unusual to us today is not new,...
Apr 21, 2020
Night Fishing : a review
by Trevor Moore Night Fishing Vicki Hastrich, Allen & Unwin, 2019, 248pp, ISBN 9-781-7-6087-5503 There are some things in life that are...
Apr 18, 2020
The Age of Anxiety : a review
by Trevor Moore The Age of Anxiety Pete Townshend, Coronet, 2020, 265pp, ISBN 9-781-473-62294-4 They say things come in threes. I am not...
Apr 16, 2020
A plague of locusts: When bubonic plague came to Australia
By Trevor Moore You will no doubt recall, those of you who drive northwards into Moruya, that there was a sign outside the Moruya Museum...
Apr 3, 2020
Statistics and popularity
by Trevor Moore When you want to know how things really work, study them when they’re coming apart. William Gibson (Zero History) We are...
Mar 29, 2020
Stage? What stage?
By Trevor Moore Dylan, The Beatles and Warren Zevon Boris Johnson has tested positive and the rise in COVID19 cases in Australia...
Mar 26, 2020
Plus ça change
by Trevor Moore Sometimes I wake up in the morning and see the sun is shining. I’ve been awakened by the kookaburras cranking up. Nothing...
Mar 25, 2020
When maths really matters
By Trevor Moore Two hours after I wrote this article, the Chief Medical Officer referred to concern about a “very, very steep growth …...
Mar 23, 2020
Splendid isolation
By Trevor Moore My daughter sent me a link to a Spotify playlist called COVID-19 Isolation Bangers You have already guessed, of course,...
Feb 28, 2020
Our Man In New York - a review
Our Man In New York Henry Hemming, Quercus, 2019, 384pp, ISBN 978-1-78747-4826 by Trevor Moore The thing about books about the Second...
Feb 25, 2020
Commitment met … and before the course was due
by Trevor Moore One of the folks who commented on my article last week was amused by use of the phrase “in due course”. In using this...
Feb 24, 2020
The Who, Live at Leeds ; It was 50 years ago today … or very nearly
By Trevor Moore The Who (source: Wikipedia) I was watching the Fire Fight Australia concert while texting with my good friend Macman. Now...
Feb 16, 2020
Commitment? We are living in hope more than expectation
Commitment? We are living in hope more than expectation Four questions, no answers … at least, not yet by Trevor Moore Well, the rains...
Feb 1, 2020
Crisis … what crisis?
by Trevor Moore Crisis … what crisis? Fires … pollution … 2019-nCoV A view from Hector McWilliam Drive looking north east: 0830 31...
Jan 31, 2020
Fleishman is in trouble: a review
By Trevor Moore Fleishman is in trouble Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Wildfire, 2019, ISBN 978-1-4722-6706-1, 373pp January is not a month for...
Jan 17, 2020
Anatomy of a crisis
by Trevor Moore Fire ravaged property in Batemans Bay I suppose that several members of our local Council who decided in August last year...
Dec 15, 2019
New Zealand fiction reviewed by Trevor Moore
New Zealand fiction reviewed by Trevor Moore The New Ships, Kate Duignan, 2018, Victoria University Press, ISBN 978-1-77656-188-9, 357pp...
Dec 11, 2019
A musical lament
by Trevor Moore The world of rock music is littered with early deaths. Janis Joplin, Marc Bolan, Nick Drake, Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix...
Oct 25, 2019
Me - a review
by Trevor Moore Elton John, Macmillan, 2019, ISBN 978 1509 853311, 376pp One of the benefits of being my age is that I was a teenager in...
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