Baxter Dury deserves a shout here.

Folk is a particular field for this. From Fairport alone there is Dave Pegg’s son, Ashley Hutchings’ son, Richard and Linda Thompson’s son, daughter, and grandson by the only child who isn’t a professional musicia […]

Is that the one with a Catholic / Protestant bus trip for some reason? That’s the one I tried but was hampered by not being able to understand a word anyone said. I resorted to subtitles, but that played havoc w […]

Bollocks to that – I love LFTHOSN. The title track, Shiver Me Timbers, Fumblin’ with the Blues – so many great tracks. It’s probably my favourite if the piano-playing-hobo albums.

I may even have liked the second series more. I thought the first one lost momentum when it moved to the prison.

And set up as such a blatantly obvious message, along with the rest of that speech, that one could only roll one’s eyes at how patronising it was.

Chernobyl was brilliant, Years and Years was basically a family soap opera with BIG ISSUES shoehorned in with a lack of grace and subtlety. *Plot Spoilers ahead* I did watch it all, but my favourite part was the […]

I’ll put in another vote for Killing Eve, and the fact that it divided opinion so much on here has to count in its favour. The break down was those who loved it, binged and wrote about it in the first Blogger T […]

I must admit I hadn’t been expecting anyone to actually enjoy it, but you’re welcome!

That’s one of the very few carols or Christmas songs which I absolutely love.

I’ve always know it as the Coventry Carol, but it’s on Kate Rusby’s new Christmas album under the title Lu Lay.

Seen

Three shows this month, taking in classical with spoken word, comedy and folk.

First up was Neil Gaiman with the BBC Symphony Orchestra for Dancing in the Dark (to be broadcast on Radio 3 on December […]

I’m agnostic about the Oxford comma in most cases, but this one wasn’t strictly necessary.

It’s surprising how dull they manage to make the threat of the end of the world. It looks good, and I enjoyed how some Tweeters complained about ‘shoe horning’ in references to the British Empire, apparently obliv […]

Thats bad new’s.

I’m with you at least 80% of the way, which is a significant advance on the other parties. Let’s do this, Foxy policies for a Foxier Britain!

Johnson and his ERG supporters were thwarted in delivering the Brexit he claimed, and still claims, people ‘wanted’ and ‘voted for’. He was thwarted by both houses of parliament and, via the heroic efforts of Gina […]

It’s OK – It was my typo and I didn’t take any offen …. oh, hang on. You mean because of the terrible crime don’t you?

Fair dos. What I haven’t seen in the coverage is much mention of the poor people who wer […]

Murderous arsehole in a suicide vest (fake, though no one could know that at the time) taken down by heroic bystanders armed with a fire extinguisher and a narwhal rusk. Their bravery would seem fanciful in a […]