Linehan’s imperial period still sparkles:
Father Ted (especially the Graham Norton episode)
Black Books
The IT Crowd (the one imperfection being Noel Fielding’s character)

Green Wing was genius (the recent tra […]

Change those ? to ! and you’ve got Captain Haddock at his most foul mouthed.

I’ve never driven a car, and I have no interest in F1, though as a pre-teen I found James Hunt’s t shirt slogan ‘If you think my girlfriend can fight, you should see her box’ kinda amusing. Different times […]

Reading before bed’s just the ticket. Maybe not Larkin, though but…

I work all day, and get half-drunk at night.
Waking at four to soundless dark, I stare.
In time the curtain-edges will grow light. […]

AOB – work has dominated my last few months (who’d’ ve thunk it, people wanting therapy?!) and that’s involved a heap of on and offline CPD courses, mainly in the area of trauma. And the way brains work, forev […]

I managed a few minutes of this. It brought to mind various people I’ve encountered over the years who’ve been involved in practices like NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) and a so-called self-help approach which […]

I loved that, and as yorkio says, they initially were far more than the SS vehicle.
Incidentally, I couldn’t help but read ‘Reagan’s president elect’ a la Heaven 17, pronounced like Jack Regan out of The Sweeney!

Style Councilla Black Sabbathletico Spizz 80 Bone Burnetta James Last Shadow Puppetshop Boyzone

Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Chairmen Of The Boards Of Canada

Steppenwolf Alice In Daisy Chainsaw Doctors of Madness

Dr Hook & The Medicine Showaddywaddy

About seven years ago one of our two cats developed cancer and had to be put down. The vet was brilliant, empathic and professional in perfect measure. I left the house with a full cat basket and returned with an […]

The Spinners (not The Detroit variety, the Liverpudlian lads) were my parents’ faves, and indeed my first concert was seeing them at Newcastle City Hall in about 1972. We waited at the Stage Door afterwards, and I […]

Great stuff, bobness, thanks for sharing.

Thank you chaps, for giving others of us a sense of what’s quite likely to come in days (hopefully years) to come.

Hi Stan – it basically involves doing around 30 biggish breaths and then fully exhaling and ‘holding’ even though there’s no breath being held. My take is that we’re then in sympathetic nervous system state, […]

I started the day with three rounds of Wim Hof breathing, followed by a cold shower. Shower water’s colder than seawater at the moment, so it’s better for vagus nerve activation. Those two sentences will probably […]

Great stuff, as per usual, Niall. And a nice added extra to be on the same page as the mighty Bob Mortimer.

This, for so many reasons – Brighton, Peel’s classic intro and outro, the bloody song itself – always lifts me. A sad addendum, tho”: Bob Golinski died a couple of months ago.

Another girl Another Plan

Just watched the Yarde fight. He flattered to deceive against a past-it Kovalev, I thought. And blimey he could do with a trainer/training regime that involves stuff like sparring.