I’m inclined to agree with you, but I think the key to playing France is to get the first goal and force them to come out more rather than playing on the break. They were very difficult to break down once t […]

It was a good performance for me, not brilliant. I was just looking at the 2018 World Cup squad. Only 9 players from that side are in this tournament. That’s a pretty good turnover of talent in just 3 years. I r […]

But is it better than Mezzanine? I’d better find out.

Not much to add but I would like to highly recommend ‘Carry On Glamping’, the Johnny Vegas thing. It’s wonderfully entertaining and actually a rather moving and personal story. I’ve always liked JV but ended u […]

I always thought the term ‘African American’ to describe any person previously termed as ‘black’ to be rather lazy. Many people are now categorized this way who have no lineage back to Africa. While we’re a […]

Very encouraged with all the responses, thanks. Once I’ve picked mine up and had a few rides on it I’ll post up a full review. I took delivery of a rather bright reflective waterproof cycling jacket yesterday. You […]

My plunge will be significant. I have to pick it up in Dublin and it’s too big to go in the car so I’ll be riding it home. 56km. Chap in the shop says it shouldn’t be a problem as I regularly do 25-30km rides […]

It’s a Haibike Trekking 4.0. I’m not sure how to post images.

I’ve never listened to a Bob Dylan album. But we share a birthday. Nashville Skyline was released the year before I was born with Self Portrait released a couple of weeks after I was born and Bob had turned 39. […]

Air with added Beck.

I have a couple of things from auctions at work.

Poster for the first Robert Downey Jr Sherlock Holmes movie signed by RDJ
A pair of in ear headphones with the case signed by Tiesto.

Pride and joy though is […]

I need to see if I have any way of burning a CD here.

Lots to be positive about now here in Ireland, thanks.

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Just finished Dylan Jones’ ‘The Eighties – 1 day, 1 decade’. It traces 80s music and culture using Live Aid as its central focus. I liked it but t […]

I’m going to do this. Problem is it’s likely to get terribly self indulgent. I can’t write record reviews like so many on here so it’s going to be as much about my relationship with the music over the last 40 year […]

Madness are the musical love of my life. I should probably put in some effort and do an album by album review thing on here.

I bought a couple of new keyboards – a Fantom workstation and Yamaha Reface CS. Mostly we’ve bought a lot of gardening stuff. I love the Ryobi one cordless range. Even got a scarifier for the lawn which is a lot o […]

As Midge said, it means nothing to me. I was 1.

This is a great example. Ben and Jerry’s just introduced an ice cream on a stick type thingy (I told you I was in the food industry). It will draw people in.

Watford fan here

If you ever watch late 70s/early 80s clips from Vicarage Road you’ll remember our ‘dugouts’. They were actually 2 rows of white benches along the touchline with no cover. Graham Taylor refused […]