Yes I would want to see the song list beforehand – you can’t leave such an important thing to chance!

Oh dear, I’d have wanted a discount – forgetting your first dance and ignoring your requests. I think Tone would have done a much better job – or even Pat Sharpe.

Good to know, at least the parents got their moneys worth!

Fair point.

That’s good chemo wasn’t as bad as thought. A hassle having to go so far for radiotherapy everyday for 3 weeks, but good you can drive Mrs H and combine with a nice meal. They did a special high dose protocol for […]

Thanks Martin, was stable in Jan and got another scan in Aug – expect current treatment to keep working for quite a while before it has to be changed. Sympathies to Mrs H, I didn’t go through chemo myself, which I […]

Not all of the NHS is like that – it was about 2 months from first GP visit presenting lump to surgery for me, though I still think that reasonable considering NHS resources. All the best to Mrs Hairnet, Martin […]

Yes, am totally with you on Caroline Spence. Check out Spades and Roses if you haven’t done so already as it is ace. I bet she will be brilliant live when you see her.

Yes I bought it last year. Enjoyed it a lot along with Magic Ship by Mountain Man which came out about the same time and has a similar genuine Appalachian sound – the latter is more vocally based than […]

Yes Black Type, reckon you are right. I did put ‘nicest person on TV’ in quotation marks because I always suspected that you don’t maintain a primetime TV spot for decades (especially if female and over 50) […]

Pederastic predilections? I must have heard about those but forgotten. I’m revoking his resuscitation forthwith.

And it turns out the airport she was referring to was in St Helena which is a UK overseas territory and doesn’t qualify for foreign aid anyway! She showed that level of competence when she was high up in the DWP […]

Linda Smith
Victoria Wood
Because in these days of heated division I could really do with a laugh.
And maybe Oscar Wilde because his life had such a sad end after the prison ordeal and I’d like him to see how […]

Lucy Rose No Words Left will be one of the records I will pick in December for Best of Year. It really is a beautiful album, words and music both. I will hold my fire about the other records so far this year as I […]

“Betting the Bull will somehow avoid the china” – excellently put! I also liked this quote from yesterday’s Times from an unnamed minister on Boris’s election and that his premiership would be only “shortlived” […]

Forgot to mention Ida Wenoe, a Danish singer whose album The Things We Don’t Know Yet I was very taken with. Here is the very catchy single Another Kind Of Love.

Heard –
Roseanne Reid – Trails
This is the daughter of Craig Reid from the Proclaimers. A very distinctive debut. She was at a Songwriting Workshop in the States and Steve Earle was so impressed he has duetted […]

My friend-of-a-friend was in a group meeting with Boris. He had no idea of any of the details, obviously hadn’t read any briefing notes and only real contribution was to say “Would you like a banana?”

Ooh that Mountain Man cover is beautiful. Thanks for posting, duly purchased.