Nail on head @gatz Quite depressing actually. Just wish Starmer had a bit of pizazz about him.

I’ll see you there @Gatz. Permission granted.

I agree with that @gatz – mock Tudor and semi detached mock Tudor are my favourite RT albums along with Daring Adventures

@Gatz I see it billed as a game of 2 halves. First set as per the current tour (I imagine slightly pruned though) and the second half is the birthday/guest set. You may well have been at the 70th birthday […]

@Gatz Thanks for the clarification I was in Hong Kong at the time. While the crash made the English papers there, the bit about the dolphin man didn’t.

@Gatz I was at a funeral two weeks ago and the coffin remained in place without any curtains – apparently it is a choice offered to families. Re Sweet Old World – Wasn’t aware it was specifically about suicide but […]

Good effort from @podicle and a spoiler attempt from @gatz The song is Live to Tell by Madonna which rather surprisingly attained the no. 48 position in Dave Marsh’s book The Heart of Rock n Soul: The 1001 […]

@Gatz Retiring? I thought he was just scaling back

@Gatz Can you confirm the riff in the video at 2:36?

Can’t deny that they are simple to use, @Gatz – but I always seem to be disappointed with the outcome. Maybe because I keep being told that it’s the best coffee this side of a genuine espresso – but I sus […]

Great choice @Gatz. I’m a big Kathryn Williams fan and this song hit the spot at once. Of course I wanted to know more about the album and so I found this review by some geezer called Seuras Og! I have even […]

@Gatz Miao!

@Gatz You still. have a library? Where do you live – Narnia South?

@gatz is completely spot on. This is their only remaining advantage over Labour but they are throwing that away now too.

@Gatz Call the Midwife big? Better not do so in Scotland or you’ll find yourself up before the procurator fiscal for hate crime

Very true @Gatz. I think that was all rather a dead end. To ask people who never read seem to read any poetry who their favourite poet is, is fairly pointless. On Poetry Day in 2009, T. S Eliot was named the […]

@gatz This is entirely beside the point, but I also used to have a regular spot talking about books on BBC local radio – GLR in my case. It only lasted a few months, until I swore violently into an open mike. The […]

@Gatz Lesley Joseph?? Was she Frau Blücher?

What an enjoyable, interesting thread this is! Hats off to you @Gatz. Like several people here, I’ve now lived in my adopted country, Sweden, longer than I lived in the country I grew up in. The idea of moving […]

@Gatz I’ve been there several times and we have met, first time was 28 years ago. Have family members there on my other half’s side.