Jazz is how I came to meet him from time to time.

My father worked at Hull University and formed a friendship with Philip* through a shared interest in jazz. There were occasional visits for record playing […]

Echoes! Yay!

Hmmm – “charming little village called Cottingham”. Cottingham left being “little” behind way before the 1970s. When my family got to know it, from 1973, what struck us was how large it was. This being somewhat […]

This might be an anual theme?

Guilty as charged (of the latter).

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I was contemplating retiring at the end of next year. It seems likely that, in the UK, we’re in for an inflation spike. This puts me off a little.

Dark chocolate Kit Kats still around. A friend is devotee. Sales probably not huge but enough to keep the line on the shelves.

@man.of.soup !
Good to see that you are still around.

@DavidB

Re ” I get my daily fix of news online (never from the BBC website, which is pretty woeful).”

I’m curious – where do you go for your online news?

I tend to go the ths BBC as the least worst (by a […]

Well that went well. I’ve not noticedd any side effects so far.

Nice day for a drive. For some reason it put me in mind of this:

Coincidentally I spent a few holidays in Sutton On Sea as a child (primary […]

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I actually booked one a bit further away than the closest offered.
Partly because I’d heard that that centre is well oroganised and partly because my car needs a reasonable run out every now and then.

Being a fully qualified “apprentice old codger” (over 60) I was able to book a vaccination appointment for next week (also my second appointment in May).
The aardvarkess hasn’t reached the “apprentice old […]

No gin.

Some links for those based in the UK:

Even before the COVID I hadn’t managed to get in here for a while:

The above shop was originaly Chilli Pepper Pete’s (Pete Seymour) who was a Sussex based chilli sauce […]

I rather liked East End “Very Hot Green Chilli Sauce”.

The review split both ways.

After my initial purchase it hasn’t been available in the Tescos stored that I frequent (or, at the moment, don’t frequent).

Fifteen months ago accoring to your review . . . ?

@bobness
Sorry – I do have the impression that CW have upped their game in the last few years.

Only three of mine are automatic and those three can be wound manually.
My bedtime routine includes winding them […]