I thought the reason you see cider being drunk on the street was that it was the lowest cost for the highest a.b.v. due to lower tax.

Screwballs?

You can now also buy Marmite peanut butter. I’m a fan of both individually, but would council against buying this piss poor combination.

You can still get Revels. I’d buy a family size bag before a long haul flight and work my way through the lot as I watched back to back films, never knowing what tasty treat I was going to get next* – an oragnge […]

You guys were hardcore. We could only afford Party 4’s.

I never did understand what that meant. Long after it dissappeared from UK bars I remember seeing it on offer as a “premium” beer in a club in Los Angeles.

God help us. Also amongst the happily unavailable- Ben Truman, Worthington E, Skol lager and Tetley’s Ale.

Not missed in the slightest – Watney’s Red Barrel, Harp Lager, Tandy Hi-Fi units, Tie Rack.

Funny isn’t it. Performers say they can’t make money from streaming and yet investment companies are falling over each other to buy up publishing rights. Streaming might have changed how we consume music but it […]

As an aside, I really enjoyed Stefan Fatsis book “Word Freak” which describes his attempts to become a nationally ranked Scrabble player in the US, and some of the pro players he encountered.

Calling Moose…..

Think I told this story on the old site. Apopogies if it’s a more recent repeat. He’s one of the few celebs I’ve bumped into, and it happened twice. The first time was in the customs red channel at Heathrow coming […]

I don’t think they abandoned them, but they accepted the need for compromise, otherwise coalition would not be possible. And as Leedsboy says, got totally turned over by the Tories

So if Clegg had refused the coalition then what? A second election where the electorate realises the error of it’s ways and decides to elect cuddly old Gordon after all? Or Cameron gets a much bigger mandate than […]

Whilst the tuition fee reverse was a huge own goal and shafted a lot of people it’s hardly in the top 10 pieces of political treachery. In terms of despicable acts, I’d have it some way behind Windrush (May should […]

Seems a sensible bit of business. Bob gets a wedge of cash now, Universal get to collect the future royalties. It might not be as good a deal for his estate, but he’s got the cash in the bank and Universal have to […]

And what have the government gained from all this extra control that the 80+ seat majority attained back in December didn’t already give them?

“The cynic in me would suggest they want the population to continue to live in fear so they can exert their control.”

Who are “they”? What do they gain from this?

And married to Sophie Dahl. People can grump all they like here, but he’s won all round hasn’t he.

I’ve just read it’s also the 49th anniversary of the Montreux Casino burning down during a concert by The Mothers of Invention. Edge of the seat stuff eh?