It was often said about Punch too. Sorry Bargepole…….

It took me ages to warm to Madness’ The Liberty of Norton Folgate. Fantastic, late career masterpiece after viewing them as mainly a singles band.

Postman Plod, the miserable sod.

I sat in the open plan surgery waiting room and listened (couldn’t not really) while a man in his 60s pleaded for an appointment while the receptionist insisted on knowing what the appointment was for. E […]

I expect ip33 will confirm this but I was surprised at how much post there was, mainly business type items but along with the birthday cards, Private Eye, Radio Times and lots of heavy, bulky cruise brochures. and […]

I was a postie for a few months during Covid and compared to Amazon, they’re in the Stone Age but then Amazon don’t have to deliver letters etc. However, it’s clear that Royal Mail suffer from years, if not decad […]

Himmler, had something similar.

Agreed but Farage and Tice are out of the same mould as Trump, denying or ignoring inconvenient truths about themselves and their cronies, working on the basis that if they repeat something often enough, it […]

I’ve used the live transcription feature built into PowerPoint a few times, it’s pretty good at creating subtitles but not perfect so I imagine that AI translation still needs checking by a person, especially for […]

No one took Trump seriously and certainly not for a second term. I’m surprised that Starmer hasn’t gone after the likes of Farage and The Mail for taxes and financial irregularities. Instead, The Mail is being […]

I thought I wanted to do something with my hands so took a mechanical engineering apprenticeship: milling, turning, grinding etc but by the end of the 3rd of 4 years, I knew I didn’t want to do it forever. P […]

The last time I bought a tiket from a tout was 1991 and I got it half price because they’d over bought. Now, if the government could just do something about Ticketmaster’s “fees” and dynamic pricing, we’d all be better off.

Armando Iannucci suggests countersuing Trump because he stated that the BBC is 100% fake news, which not even Trump can believe is true.

BBC has a case against Trump. WhiteHouse Chief Press Officer called the BBC ‘100% fake news.’ Which is defamatory and untrue.

— Armando Iannucci (@aiannucci.bsky.social) 2025-11-15T08:45:17.924Z

Tarragona looks lovely but one for another trip I think.

City Hall, former home of the Greater London Authority, is being dismantled and refurbished. I worked on the opening event there 23 years ago. Only the architects will mourn the original structure: The interior […]

I walked around Seville and thoroughly enjoyed it. I see so much more walking.

Not sure if that means iPlayer or BBC Select (streams in USA I think. ) If it was only on iPlayer, anyone watching outside the UK would have to have used a VPN so that would cut potential viewing numbers down immediately.

This. I’ve mentioned previously that I’m hearing about people I’ve known through work dying before their time all too often. That and my brother and his wife both having strokes, hers being by far the worst, with […]

I did think about the ferry as I can easily get a train to Portsmouth. When I looked a while back, it was quite cheap too.

Thanks all. I’m intending to fly to Bilbao, unlikely I’d hire a car although I will look at Biarritz as I have plenty of time to plan. I have heeded LoW’s warning about the weather so will look at going April/May […]