I suspect that’s a hole in one.

Full marks for getting it checked out promptly, and every best wish for your recovery.

It’s still there if you want to revisit, but I should warn you that you can never go home again (but I guess you can bop there, to paraphrase Grosse Point Blank).

Read the list again – Ebony and Ivory is on it. I was at secondary school when it was a hit and remember a deeply patronising assembly given by the deputy head, and in particular the following exegesis, ‘But I […]

Didn’t get up until after 12, went for a longish walk around some Roman sites in town, used charcoal from Saturday night’s fire to have a go at making some drawings of the cat (luckily she is black), made some […]

‘Room’ gets off lightly with 5, the same number of fingernails it takes to achieve the same effect by scraping a blackboard.

When Phil and Gary were both on the team sheet the Stretford End would sing ‘Neville Neville, They ain’t half bad / Neville Neville, it’s the name of their dad.’

I loathe Imagine, and have done since the first time I heard it when I was 13 very soon after Lennon’s murder. But that’s because it is utter dog shit, which is a rational enough reason to satisfy any jury.

When she sang Shake It Off at Folk by the Oak a few years ago the emo-looking teen girl with the family next us scowled, ‘that is just wrong’, which brought a laugh reaction when I told Kate on Facebook.

I have a theory that I Just Called wouldn’t be nearly so hated, just dismissed as twee but harmless, if it wasn’t for that infuriating 🎵 Dink! Dink! dink!’ 🎵 trio of notes at the end.

I like Right By Your Side, though I haven’t heard it for years. The joy sounds infectious rather than forced to me, and I would still take forced jollity over the maudlin any day (Another Day in Paradise, to g […]

No. Just no.

For Thommo it has to be Semi-Detached Mock Tudor, even if I find Pete Zorn’s paroling brass an occasional distraction. I don’t know the Graham Parker but will seek it out.

The glaring omission is AC/DC’s If You Want Blood … Still dangerously thrilling decades later.

‘We decided to just go into the studio and see what happened’ [We didn’t have any ideas and hadn’t given it any thought until we absolutely had to.]

It doesn’t recover from that ‘you and I’ howler at the start of the lyric. I’m still reflexively cringing at it by the time the song ends.

… and it’s gone. Good, frankly https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3385zrrx73o

I sure there would be times when I was in the top-posters list. I’m not particularly engaged by recent topics, and have had none of my own to contribute. That’s just the way it goes, but I at least check in pre […]

Wasn’t there once a bank robber who tried to disguise himself by wearing a full-face bike helmet, a plan which might have met with more success if his name hadn’t been printed across the front of the helmet?

I should add that we watched it immediately after a couple of particularly hyper episodes of Stranger Things, so we were on the TV equivalent of a sugar rush, but the opening was extraordinarily slow and dull, no?