I enjoyed it for a long time. ‘It’s a rubbish music show!’, people would cry. ‘It’s not a music show, it’s Saturday night telly’. Which is why it lost its way when he result show was put into the Sunday schedules […]

Family tradition. His brothers are called Bary Barry, Hary Harry and Lary Larry. He also has a sister called Mary Marry.

It had been all but forgotten before Simon Nicol found himself in in the hamlet of Sparrow Mumbling, not for from Saxmundham, and fell into conversation with the landlord of the Clipped Cock and Tricorn.

Novelist Mo Hayder has died from MotorNeurone Disease at the age of 59. His first novel, the extremely macabre The Birdman, was a best seller and a bit of a cause celebre at the time. Her books are well worth […]

More anecdotal Aldi news. In Chelmsford centre on Sunday the biggest shops I went into, Tesco and John Lewis, had mask use of about 50/50. At the Aldi round the corner from me later the same day it was more like […]

Alex Comfort, author of The Joy of Sex, wrote a civil rights song which was recorded by Nina Simone. In marked contrast to the advice in his most celebrated work it was called Go Limp.

If she’s good enough for Miles Davis …

Yep. The point is and always was that it it was a significant long term regeneration project with a short term sporting event attached.

Oh I dunno – I’ve seen much, much worse selections from people connected to the sports world.

I’ll find myself watching some of it if it’s on while I’m pointed at the television, but there’s nothing I’ll make a point of seeing. I quite enjoy the athletics.

Twitter today is reminding me yet again tha […]

The new Songlines dropped through my letterbox today and I played it as I worked this afternoon. One track in particular made me prick up my ears and play it again as soon as it had finished. Of course it turned […]

I’ve just read the full text of the speech for the first time in a long while. It’s unmistakable that Powell uses the example of his constituent and further on an elderly woman with a boarding house as anecdotes […]

Excuse a cricket ignoramus, but how does the format make sixes easier? Isn’t the same ball bowled the same way the same distance?

I caught a bit of it and frankly didn’t have a clue what was going on, nor any idea what that stats in the 80s video game graphics meant. I guess it was aimed at people like me who find the idea that cricket can […]

If Willis and Driver are taking us into actors who unexpectedly release albums, Scarlett Johansson released Anywhere I lay My Head, a collection of Tom Waits covers, in 2008. I’ve got a copy but can’t say it gets […]

Well she has narratives for the cover versions – a mutual admiration Twitter exchange with Susanna Hoffs, watching The Littlest Hobo with a bag of crisps on a Saturday morning, turning up at her mum’s when she w […]

Don’t know what you’re talking about ☺

Re-Reading that I should be clear that I made a bad typo and meant to say ‘I don’t dislike my office or colleagues’.