@alan33 sounds like it could be a topic for a whole new thread, but just to reciprocate – No1 on my wedding day was East 17 with Stay Another Day. … not that I knew that before just looking it up. Oh, and on […]

Great stuff, thank you kindly @Alan33

@Alan33 Thank you for posting that. I raise a glass to your brother too.🙏

@alan33 I saw a young Welsh guitarist the other night, James Oliver, who sounded like the very reincarnation of Micky Gee. Highly recommended.

@alan33 Our long-serving local postie retired earlier this year after 36 years of slogging between our village and other nearby in the locality. He was a fixture here, everyone knew him and loved his cheery […]

I can’t be the only person wondering who this footballing brother is… Enlighten us @alan33

Another very interesting book that I don’t think has been mentioned – Riding So High: The Beatles And Drugs by Joe Goodden. @Alan33, you’d better start saving up! 😉

@alan33 Jools seemed to hold his BBC jobs in high regard and didn’t say a bad word about anybody in that book. Even leaving his wife for somebody else was covered by a cheery “it all turned out OK” sentence or 2.

@alan33 Isn’t the difference that Jones has pleaded innocence while Connolly pleaded Guilty. It speeds up the Court process significantly.

Snowballs! What a wonderful memory @Alan33. Talk about Proustian! Your mention of snowballs makes me think of Advocaat, a creamy Dutch liquor which was very popular and often cropped up at the delightfully […]

You make some excellent points here @alan33 Three great songs. All different, all the same.

@Alan33 , thanks for posting. Retired and a lurker no more.