On the dates we’re travelling National Rail Enquiries currently has the return as £113.35 each (and that takes into account a third off with our Two Together railcard). At present the return flights from St […]

I tried a carbon footprint calculator somewhere online recently which gave me a figure of, iirc, 7 tonnes against a local average of 11.5. I’m pretty green in lots of ways but I would be loathe to give up cheap f […]

I mentioned this on another thread recently, but when the tune to Richard Thompson’s Persuasion first appeared on the film soundtrack Sweet Talker I found it pleasant enough, if unremarkable by his standards. It w […]

The collection includes records from Dire Straits [fair enough], Jets Yazz [I assume you mean The Jets and Yazz, separate acts but OK], Hands Up [youre just making it up now. hands Up? A quick search shows there […]

Tbh that’s what I thought of the Mojo disc, though I confess I didn’t make it to the end (and only reached the end of a couple of tracks). The next time I’m tempted to say I like all sorts of music I’ll remembe […]

Can you double it up and fold the pan around them? I do something similar with standard tin cans before putting them in the recycling – give them a rinse the drop the tab-pull lide inside before crushing the open end.

They for the singular has been around since the 1300s and I’m sure most of us have used as a handy way of identifying someone whose position is known but not their gender. The example given here is ‘A jou […]

That should have been @davebigpicture

You might want to hold fire before you book that trek @davebigpuicture . The link in my OP is dead now and the show doesn’t appear on Earth’s listings, though there is a biography page for Maria McKee if you […]

But listen to Protection rather than Blue Lines if you want to put his theory to the test.

An obvious one, but I jut skip as soon as I hear, ‘In the tooowwwwwn where I was born …’ and usually play And Your Bird Can Sing twice to make up for it.

She’s young and cool enough for the kids but gets the thumbs up from the Afterword demographic too, so it all seems good to me. I’ve heard and enjoyed her album, but what struck me was that everything in Eil […]

1) More than 3 decades ago I saw Philip Madoc as Claudius/the ghost of Hamlet’s father in Manchester (Robert Lindsay played the Dane (No, not the Dame, the Dane. Sometimes I think you lot play too much […]

That’s one of the 43 I have, but I don’t think I’ve listened to it for decades.

We’re waiting Derek, but no hurry mate. In your own time. When you’re ready.

Apparently an upcoming tour has been cancelled, which strikes me as unfair on his fans.

Ooh! I didn’t know there were Heartworn Highways vids up. I was at both gigs, and the first was where I saw the brilliant Louis Brennan, my music discovery of the year (I saw him during the interval at the s […]

I rarely get involved in these situations, but a couple of years ago Martin Stephenson played a solo gig at a pub in town. When we got there before the show Martin was chatting to a few people who showed every […]

I saw Show of Hands play an excellent gig at Union Chapel late last year. I’m of the opinion that if you can’t get in the front few rows there these next best seats are in the steeply banked central section ups […]