Other than being asked to sign in, pretty much as normal thanks.

The pub has three small rooms and most punters were in the centre one where the ‘entrance’ door for a one way system was, so there wasn’t a lot […]

Well that resolve didn’t last long. I’m sitting in the garden of the last mentioned job with a pint right now.

I watched the Amy documentary, which I missed when it was released in 2015, this week. What a terrible tale of a young woman who was so talented but so damaged and vulnerable, and spent her far too short life […]

There are 5 pubs within a 15 minutes walk of my place.

One is a Harvester, so let’s discount that.

One is famously rough (flat roof, can’t see in the windows – you know the sort of thing), and I hav […]

Sadly Killing Eve was a mess. I enjoyed the second series more than many but after this third one it really does seem that the well is dry. There were some good moments, always involving Villanelle’s too rare a […]

Is it Friday already? Time flies.

I’ll throw in a couple of:

Seen

Staged is by some way the most entertaining lock-down television I seen. The Good Omens team of David Tennant and Michael Sheen play Zoom […]

This thread passed me by, but when I noticed it at the top of the recently updated list i realised, yet again, that you can always spot a @kaisfatdad thread from the title.

Oh, and for me a plus of living in a […]

In The Heart of the Moon nearly made my list too. I even considered sneaking it in because I noticed that my top ten as submitted is exclusively white and either British / Irish or US. In the end I went with my […]

Looking at a seating plan I was one of the two higher levels. I love the man, and had wanted to see him for decades, but was disappointed. The Light actually fell asleep at one point, and the could be nasty if it […]

Poetry of Departures – Philip Larkin

Sometimes you hear, fifth-hand,
As epitaph:
He chucked up everything
And just cleared off,
And always the voice will sound
Certain you approve
This audacious, […]

I saw him at the Barbican earlier this year, my only big venue gig pre lockdown. He’d need a band. With just him and a few effects pedals his undeniable charisma didn’t reach the balcony so I can’t see it exten […]

It was a festival set, designed to appeal to the non-obsessive, packed with greatest hits. It was also, I thought, absolutely superb. A ‘soundtrack of our lives’ performance for those present with two hours of son […]

that’s why I followed actor John Cusack, who then Tweet-yelled at me and blocked me when he stepped out of his usual Trump-bashing to spread unsubstantiated scaremongering that 5g will make everyone ill, and I ( […]

No

And Parler for the ones who are so obnoxious they get thrown out of Twitter (which is a pretty high bar).

I have just gone to YouTube and listened to The Brazilian, to the best of my knowledge for the first time ever. To be honest, having been told that the track ‘straight fucking goes’ and sounds like its guitar […]

I don’t know if take out real ale has been happening, though I would be heartened if anyone can tell me it has. Nor do I know if it would be economic for them to make small enough batched for such drastically reduced trade.

I have a couple of questions on this.

One, what arsehole decided that the best day to try opening the pubs to trade again was a Saturday?

Two, will there be any beer, by which I mean cask ale – the usp of […]

Have one on me might have appeared on a longer list, but Top 10 from 20 years? Not quite.

Doesn’t the Legend slot artist have to have an air of camp, or even naffness about them? There’s an arch, ‘guilty pleasures’ aspect to the earlier choices. Indeed, after the first such performance I remembe […]