Not a problem. Dispense with a battery and plug a 12000 mile (maximum) flex into a wall socket. For a flight to New Zealand. Have it on a manky big spool in a hangar and stick the end into a connector jack on […]

I can’t help but pronounce her hame in the same rhythm as ‘Billy The Fish’

I prefer going on my own more and more these days. I’m enjoy company but more than anything I just want to see the band play.

One close pal of mine is of the same mind (Brian). It’s not a night out razzing, […]

At home and very likely in bed before midnight. My little family is exhausted at the moment (for reasons I’ve posted on other threads – thanks again for all the kind wishes) but we have had a quiet and very […]

Thanks retrop. She is. Keep on keeping on yourself, sir. Every good wish to all of you.

Not superb. Events did highlight how true our friends are, and how much our families care for my wife and me though.

Late 2018 and I succumbed to lumbar problems which initially meant 3 weeks off work, physio […]

She surely is! Another one this year! My smash has never been so ing’d.

Thanks @Twang. Thank him indeed. She’s more of a ‘Steps’ girl, I’m afraid. This place makes literally no sense to her.

Thanks @Sewer Robot

I’m lucky. I always am. I get given nice things every year. This year The Police studio albums box set and The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin DVD box set. I still like CD’s and DVD’s.

Plus, the usual […]

Oh, be nice

No need to apologise, Good Fellow. The fine Black Celebration has got it right, and I have to admit it’s a very tenuous one.

Yes, it all depends on ABBA being pronounced ‘a bar’ for it to be even tiresomely amusing.

There was a similar thread an age ago on The Word site, I think.

Or possibly not, but anyway I remember making up a couple of gags and posting them. I haven’t thought of anymore since, mind. Which explains why […]

SNP? I was sat next to Ian Blackford at a barbers today having our respective hairs cut.

He wanted to look smart for the SNP team photie to be taken in the afternoon.

That begins and ends my contribution to the debate.

Indeed so, Colin

Mind, I never did it again even though I was tempted. Just that one moment of overwhelming ‘fuck this awful place’

Fucking hell! Get well and keep well, sir

Nothing rare or weird, but last year a sod of a bout of sciatica eventually made it clear I have a spinal stenosis and lumbar problems.

Which is as you know absolutely […]

Wasn’t he in a Parrot Shoo Regiment?

Nothing funny really.

I once turned up to an interview for Nortel. Gave my name to the receptionist and sat and waited to be summoned into one of the shiny offices.

After a while, down the central staircase […]

My brother once helped carry him up and down a hill in Northumberland on a stretcher for charity.

My memoirs are writing themselves.

This sort of thing turns me into Jekyll and Hyde.

I remember first becoming aware of him years ago on the telly with a tiny acoustic guitar singing something mawkish and self-pitying from under a Boris Johnson […]