Braintree Districts Council’s planning application search was unable to verify that I am human for a while.

You’re going to have to give us more help here Clive. What’s remarkable about this set list?

Yeah, I saw that and it’s pretty clear she didn’t want to be. I read the whole piece, but didn’t like myself for being so intrusive.

A wonderful, warm and funny writer. Her review of ‘Prince’ Harry’s book Spare spared me the bother of reading it. At one point, the prince talks about tuck at school, specifically his love of Starburst, forme […]

The author is the interviewee in the latest Word in Your Ear podcast.

The ‘Snake were a key band for me in my teens. I saw them half a dozen time or so, including headlining Donington in 1983. I moved away when they edged into the US style, and the last time I saw them was the f […]

A very similar demographic when we saw Steve and the band in Cambridge last week, despite Cambridge and Coventry/Warwick both being student towns.

Hamper of Ralgex and Sonatogen tonic wine to Mr Rawlinson!

Reform is a one man band. No Farage, no party. If he quits, is disgraced (which would have to be a big one), and falls ill that’s the end of Reform as a viable entity.

I tend to see the BBC as the voice of the government of the day whichever side that is. It also ties itself in knots trying not to seem discriminatory in any way, and it’s not always an easy mix. I’d like some exa […]

It’s 11 years since the iPod classic ceased production, so there are probably adults who either think of it as being as obsolete as the 8 track or have never heard of it.

Impressive!

An old friend of mine is a life long Hammers fan and gave his son the middle name Boleyn 20 odd years ago, before the deal or even the Olympics. He’s always referred to it as the Boleyn ground rather than Upton Park.

It has occurred to me that it’s odd that Billy Connolly was called Billy, coming from a Catholic family in Glasgow. Even when I was at primary school in the 70s the Catholic kids pretty much all went to Catholic s […]

Margaret may be the champion for variants. Wiki lists 27 from Daisy to Peggy (though not Peg, so maybe it should be 28?). The only Margaret I know personally always goes by Margaret.

Another thumbs up for Dig!

The doc about the revived Woodstock festival is on Netflix (or at last was a couple of weeks ago). It would make anyone glad to be at home recuperating rather than being there.

Without doubt a superbly skilled guitarist, but his wasp in a bottle tone is what often makes Queen a tough listen for me.