I’ve been trying to sell my bachelor pad since March ’23. Our financial circumstances are dire for the last 6 years (2 tracker mortgages and a massive inheritance tax bill that should never have happened) and we […]

Speaking of Top of the Pops, as far as I can recall Gang of Four were in danger of having a hit with “I love a man in a uniform”, (great song by the way) and got a bit sniffy about whether it was right politically […]

One of the more refreshing aspects of his memoirs is that he seems acutely aware of what a tool he has been and continues to be and names it repeatedly throughout the book. Obviously, if he hadn’t it would be […]

In his book/memoir Surrender Bono talks about how his Friday routine between school and home often entailed getting a bus into Dublin City centre to look in the record shops of Talbot Street before getting the bus […]

It’s on BBC4.

I was also called Bob in college by a woman who is still a friend of mine. At the time I found it very annoying so I told her I would inform our friends that it was the nickname I had for my penis.* That was the […]

I use that one a lot either to fellow football fans or my children. Very few recognise the provenance even though I do a fine Windsor Davies impression. My children are 5, 8 and 9, unusual names but I love them all the same.

I wish. Today’s performance was Moysian without his knack for getting a result. Hopefully we’ll improve when the new players are all up to speed because a season of that would be hard to endure.

Great transfer window for West Ham. Time will tell whether that results in a better team. I’m glad Moyes has moved on but I’m yet to be convinced that JLo can deliver better football or results. I predict that […]

This may be a simplistic and fundamentally wrong view but it was held by my Irish friends and I when we lived in London through the 90s. It was that there is a minority of British citizens every generation, mostly […]

Sounds like the rather annoying South Dublin accent aka “West Brit”, that north Dubliners like me are bred to dislike. So a simple sentence like “That was a great night last night”., becomes “dash was a graysh […]

Great response so far and a very high standard has been established, almost worthy of Nigel Blackwell himself. I knew you’d rise to the challenge.

Here’s my first effort… I’ve been thither, I’ve been yon, The soles of my slippers are nearly gone, I’ve lost the will to carry on, ‘Cos I’ve got restless legs! In the context of the song, I think it would […]

I’m in Maynooth which is very handy for public transport. There’s even a late bus service that passes just around the corner from my favourite pub in Dublin and leaves me at the end of our street. I get in for […]

Are you in the Republic? I understood that it’s free on all public transport, rail or bus, here for anyone over 66. I’m 7 years away and looking forward to it.

Hunter in Hill Street Blues always reminded me of Sam the American Eagle from the Muppet Show. My memory of the opening titles to Hill St Blues were always rearranging his name and referring to him as James […]

Spain were the best team in the competition but they also had a massive stroke of good fortune when they played Germany and the English officials chose to ignore the clear handball by Sideshow Bob that could hav e […]

Wordlebot is an arrogant dick. I got today’s solution in 3 but it reckons a wrong answer that it would have chosen would have been a better choice – a safe par four being better than a birdie.

I know this is a bit niche but I’ll nominate Bernard Fowler of Tack>Head. Any time they played live I’d hope that he was off touring with the Stones. Without him, they were complete, a divine racket and industrial […]