Our next door neighbour* has a vast range of petrol-engined tools, and I look forward to muttering Norbot’s lines many times in the future. *We do get on extremely well with them, but oh dear, the tools…

‘Pointlessly blowing leaves around’. ‘Neat and Tidy, Mr. Wallace’. A couple of visual things. The basement of the house must be a nod to the Tardis, and in one scene, it looked like a Bosch painting of hell. T […]

I recently bought a cd off Bandcamp, and I was able to download a low res version while waiting for the cd, included in the price. I’d thought about buying as a high res download, and then making my own cd, but I […]

‘There are Old Pilots, and Bold Pilots, but no Old, Bold Pilots’. From ‘Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em’. I apply this to my cycling.

I have taken to removing my cold-weather ‘beanie’ hat of late in the manner of Mark Rylance as Thomas Cromwell, in the current BBC series, grasped from behind*, though when I do so, I lack a skullcap und […]

One of the forks and the spade are 1980s vintage. The handles creak a bit sometimes, but the metalwork is true. The other fork is possibly mid-1950s, and is a ‘border’ fork, about 2/3rds the size of the other. […]

I’d be inclined to leave well alone, as the steel? used to make the business end might have been treated in some way. Any blacksmiths your way you could ask? We have two Spear and Jackson forks and one spade, a […]

Wallace used to be on a Radio 4 afternoon programme called ‘Veg Talk’, with a veg salesman called Charlie Hicks. It was as limp as a limp piece of veg that was on holiday in Limpley Stoke.

Mr. Blast. Also used to insist that a certain band be referred to as ‘The Yes’.

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‘We’re in the Colony of rmmmph-rmph’…

If the live version of The Lamb is exactly the same one on the Archive box, then I believe that Gabriel’s vocals were rerecorded before the archive box came out. The last track is an alternative studio take, as t […]

The documentary is on the iPlayer, as of 21/11/2024. And so’s I Know Where I’m Going. The film is the newly restored high definition version by the BFI. I saw some when it was on Saturday just gone, and it loo […]

One of things their CEO was very keen on was having different levels of functionality. She thinks that content providers, artists and people who make stuff would pay – in some way – for the ability to link to […]

It’s worth looking out for more feeds and ‘starter packs’ that take your fancy. Also, follow lots of people. Over-follow at first, and trim the list down to refine your feed. If you’re using the ‘Following’ tab […]

Their CEO has been on the ‘Quiet Riot’ podcast talking about how they’ll make money. Not ads or data selling. Regarding toxicity, the ‘Block’ feature on BlueSky is fantastic; block someone, and you never hea […]

And Rob C. He was on twitter, but I haven’t heard from him or one of his incarnations in ages.

I’m gcu-grey-area@bsky.social I left twitter last week after 15 years. Even using it in ‘following’ only mode I’d had enough.

‘There are – of course – three kinds of jazz; hot, cool, and what-time-does-the-tune-start?’ Jill Swinburne, The Beiberbecke Affair, by Alan Plater.

I read thegrauniad’s article, and was surprised to find that Solace was a couple of years old. I thought ‘I don’t remember anything on The Afterword about this’, and found your post after searching the site. N […]

Hardly a hit, but XTC’s ‘Living Through Another Cuba’ puts the Cuban missile crisis in 1961.