I once saw Sir Robby Bobson at a Barry Manilow concert.

This probably isn’t that surprising. It was before he died, obviously, otherwise that would have been a bit odd.

Bless their cotton socks.

The Everlys had a number one with Temptation, didn’t they?

Yeah but he looked a bit funny eating a bacon sandwich, didn’t he. So his political career is finished.

PS Tory majority of 32

How about The Days Before Rock n Roll in which Van the Man mutters on about Lester Piggott losing a goldfish or something?

You could always use the Adam and Joe secret signal.

STEVEN!

There are two that never fail:

The Show Must Go On – Queen
The entirety of the Carousel Original Soundtrack

The following almost always work:

Mount The Air – The Unthanks
Sibelius’ 5th Symphony
Coat of […]

Don’t let his biography put you off Quartered Safe Out Here, his account of his time in Burma as a young officer. It’s very good, if you haven’t read it.

Good to see your first day back at work was a productive one……

Signing off our posts with capitalised aquatic creatures is now frowned upon.

HADDOCK

In 1986 my friends parents took me and him to the local Chinese for his 13th birthday. My ensemble for this event was: a lurid green and white stripy shirt, white jeans, a green bow-tie and green Mickey Mouse […]

REM – “Untitled” at the end of Green. That’s a rather lovely song.

To be fair, it’s not much worse than rhyming Diplomat with Siamese Cat.

The crowd’s in good voice…….

Can I suggest Girl From Mars?

I have a feeling that in 100 years time Let it Go is the song by which this decade will be remembered, and that will still be played by the 2117 version of Desmond Carrington (pre-his sad demise, obviously).

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And the interviewee will always be the one to call time on the interview after no more than 60 seconds have passed, with a “Well if that’s everything Inspector, I’m a busy man you know…..”

Wey aye man. Canny bagga Tuda’s.

Yeah, I realised that he probably has as soon as I posted.

A red baseball cap?? Heaven forbid.