Sorry to hear of your collective troubles Beezer. Wishing you all a better 2025.

I just finished Black Doves. I liked it and I like KK, although she only seems to ever use her own voice for any part. We watched Bad Sisters on Apple, which was quite good but at least 2 episodes too long. I […]

I exchanged a few words with him around the time of A Matter of Life and Death, very friendly. I wish him a long retirement.

Someone keeps recommissioning it so there must be an audience. When I’ve seen it, I’ve found it terribly old fashioned, a cross between panto and an end of the pier show but I suppose it’s been deliberately made […]

I started a mechanical engineering apprenticeship in 1980. Looking back, the environment was quite toxic: lots of verbal bullying, sexism and generally offensive stuff. The corporate places I go to these days are […]

Masterchef is made by an independent production company. According to the The Rest Is Entertainment podcast, the BBC don’t supervise production and only get dragged in when something like this happens. As an […]

I think VW claim 160 miles for their electric Crafter, short wheel base but anecdotally, 100 miles is more like it. Smaller vans fare better obviously but there are a lot of LWB Sprinters/Transits etc out there […]

Hydrogen fuel cells have a better range. I think you’ll see hydrogen stations for commercial vehicles because electric vans are currently ok for local deliveries but hopeless for any significant distance.

We have a Toyota Yaris Cross, self charging petrol hybrid. I said the other day that we could have probably gone all electric, we may yet.

From Politico a few days ago. Trump has gone quiet on the matter.

London traffic seems to be concentrated into Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, the traditionally heavy Monday and Friday seem to be quieter. I went from Worthing to Moorgate on Tuesday, which took four and a half […]

My brother has been known to give The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, although not to me. I must get around to reading it one day.

He was good with that baseball too.

There was one in Northwick Park Hospital when I was a kid. We used to ride it all the way round to experience the sideways movement.

The Duke Of Wellington at Shoreham took pre emptive action.

They lost me at the cover of Teenage Kicks.

I only went into the pub itself. IIRC, there was a small plaque mentioning The Who in the bar.

I went to The Railway once, about 40 years ago and it was in a dire condition. It was allegedly where Townshend put his guitar through the low ceiling. Since demolition, there are 4 small blocks of flats on the […]

I sometimes used to go to a bar in Paris when I worked there on events, Le Sous Boc. It was close to the hotel, you could get food until 3am and it had a huge range of beers, all served in the correct glass, which […]

I remember a long conversation, although I don’t know what about but it was lovely to meet you Beezer.