Opportune moment to link again to this gem from the prematurely departed David Cavanagh

Decent band of their time, supported everyone bar The Wurzels. I wouldn’t go rushing to discogs hoping it’ll be your pension, mind.

Full house, including three that are ‘double points’ (ie first and second word both with the same letter)

Arctic Monkeys
Buzzcocks
The Cardiacs
The Damned
Echo & The Bunnymen
Fiat Lux
Gary Glitter […]

I fell asleep last night with that bloody 3 hours and 42 minute clip playing. Cheers, tkd!

3rd…..Lewis Capaldi!

Excellent! Ta G.

Cheers, paws. So far so good (definitely helps with clients where there’s already an established face-to-face relationship). Good luck!

Today’s the start of my first full week doing only online sessions with clients; about a quarter of existing clients have declined the offer/suggestion, mainly because they don’t have the space at home for privacy […]

Great performance. I have a distant memory of an entry on Young Filmmaker of The Year , as shown on BBC’s Screen Test, which was a film/video for the song. Black and white and disturbing, as I recall.

This is the best version, I’d say.

I’ve just wikipediaed confirmation, but there was a Gerry and Sylvia Anderson helmed live-action movie called Doppelgänger, made in 1969, which I only got to see years later. I’d love to see it again; I seem to […]

Wonderful times.

Ah, Kensington Gardens. Best bit of town.

Thanks for the thread, Dai. Just the ticket.
My 99 year old Aunty Joan died (not of covid-19) in an old people’s home last weekend, and my 81 year old mum is trying to sort some kind of funeral, with, hopefully, a […]

I had a similar experience, same Hackney house, in about ’87. There’d been scary pics of torture rooms, snakes and whathaveyou, in mags available only at Compendium books in Camden, but when you actually went […]

They won’t do it on timed rounds. The give away is when there’s a question during which you don’t see the quizmaster or the teams (ie most of the HOG questions)

Your number 3 is practised by various other quizzes. They do give it a bit long on HOG, though. You could get another Answersmash question in…

Yes, the perfect combo of easy going and swift-witted. His response to daft queries from contestants, of sympathising with them and then appearing to listen to some instruction in his earpiece, is lovely to […]

I’ve found that watching it over the course of a week gives it an added quality, where the initial snootiness of some contestants evolves into warmth. Not that they’re there for the week, of course. They probably […]