Nobody said it was going to be easy but in December 2024 I merged the content of our two websites into one, which means fans of The Goodwills and my long-running blog, Friday on My Mind, end up here.
I stopped writing the weekly essay just over a year ago, promising to produce occasional rants called Digressions. They have been few in number so far but I can feel one coming on.
The nine-year archive of Friday on My Mind can be found in the right hand side panel under the historic photo of me posing in the doorway of a stone cottage in Culloden, Scotland. I was born there, so claim birthright.
From now, all Goodwills posts and Digressions columns will appear on this website. If you are less interested in the music you can confine yourself to the right hand column. As warned, the Home page contains a constant stream of writing from today back to 2014, when I started the blog. It is more efficient to browse through the topics or search by key word (try Trump or Abbott).
The Goodwills website goes back further – to 1999 when the Internet was in its infancy and we had no idea what we were doing. That is why the original website name was hacked and pinched by a porn Queen. Ironic, eh. It happened to Kristina Olsen too but she gets lots of laughs from the story when performing live.
The original bobwords website will soon disappear, as will the rather large invoice to maintain two websites. Just a word about the mailing lists. Of neccessity they have all been condensed into one (large) mailing list. It is a simple matter to unsubscribe and your contacts details will disappear from the database forever. You can always subscribe again. I’m working on that too, but Ukraine wasn’t built in a day, eh.