Department S is all over YouTube as well. Another Dennis Spooner and Monty Bergman attempt to break into American tv. Endearing stuff. Opening stock footage of Paris or Milan or Geneva with the rest shot on […]

Pob!

Love this guy. Pun intended. I touched him once. At a blues fest at Crystal Palace in the early ‘90’s. He was doing an end of set long guitar lead audience walk around and he brushed past me mid […]

On a tangent, an old work colleague of mine, a hugely keen and frustrated amateur thespian, used to play a game of ‘Miscasting’ Very silly. We topped it off and ended the game by casting Norman Wisdom as Saruman.

I’m the same. Two old school pals,and then a firm dozen or so from my first few years in London. When we were young and daft. We’ve all moved on and away from each other physically, some to different cou […]

As I’ve become older I do make small talk, rather than make conversation, with strangers. I have a stammer which I can keep at bay most of the time, though it’s a lottery based on situation and mood. All the sam […]

Patrick Hamilton. The canon is slim but intense. Novels filled with hopes quashed and loves unrequited. You need to be ready for that. PG Wodehouse. 93 standalone novels plus an almost infinite numbers of […]

My brother was a team leader in the Northumberland National Park Fell Rescue Team at the time. They were involved in the recovery of some of the wreckage that fell across the border area. It was horrifying.

Pre-First World War in my opinion. 1900’sh. The Belle Époque wasn’t all that belle

Ha ha! Pleased you know it! I’m resolutely not from Darras Hall though. Proudly from the village itself. Product of a cooncil hoose. Most of my school pals were from the glittering palaces of Darras so I k […]

I shan’t be wearing them. Tits oot for the lads.

I should be alright. I’ve still got ‘Keegan is Magic’ tattooed across my knackers so I should be ok at Checkpoint Charlie at Gateshead. I’ll have to get rid of my coat though.

The Master Plan is to eventually form a pincer movement from Berkshire and take by force either Hexham or Morpeth as and when the Home Counties born offspring finishes their university edumercation.

The very same

I’ve been to Norfolk only once. To the beating heart of Norfolk Police HQ for work reasons. So it was an early train and a day in a meeting room on-site. I could have been anywhere else in the country. T […]

You both play bass? *licks pencil* *makes note* I see. Carry on.

I may have misconstrued. I for one would love to meet @fentonsteve. A man who plays bass in a Quo covers band is a fine man. However faced with a choice of looking at tents in an exhibition centre or […]

I wouldn’t expect any further activity as exciting for a while after this. Given the high profile of who he was/is and the global media interest any potential charge will be painstakingly put together. The CPS w […]

Thank you so much for posting that. I’ve gone on a similar image hunt, and yes I was right about The Satan Bug. I owned all of those and quite a few more. Puppet On a Chain is gruesome. Wouldn’t pass mus […]

The Fontana cover to Alastair Maclean’s ‘The Satan Bug’ was a clinker. A man in 70’s hair and ‘tache abducting a blonde woman, pistol raised firing at the reader. In front of a Mini Cooper. As I recall.