Marillion have done XTC’s Senses Working Overtime. And at least once with Dave Gregory.

There are quite a few videos on YouTube from this lot of musicians who’ve done Donald Fagen’s ‘The Nightfly’. Many of them did a version of Steely Dan’s lost ‘The Second Arrangement’. Including ‘New Frontier […]

The record shop in Bridgwater is the only place I’ve ever seen a copy of ‘Growers of Mushroom’ in the wild.

So good, Genesis let them use a lot of stuff from their archive at ‘The Farm’. Good enough also that both Steve Hackett and Phil Collins have played live with them. Musical Box member Antoine Baril appears to be […]

Back in early November, I installed Linux Mint on an old Toshiba laptop. I had a minor problem altering the laptop’s BIOS to boot from the USB, but making the install was easy on a Mac using ‘Etcher’. The other […]

Ronay’s one of reasons I still buy and read theguardian, even when he writes about sports – other than cricket – I care not about. ‘Still, two Tests to come’ would have fitted better, headline writer.

‘Chitty’ remains one of my favourite films. And one of the very few I’ve been to the cinema to see. I wish I still had my Corgi Toys car. I can do a very good Baron Bomburst, though. Or at least whoever did Gert […]

Yodel: We have delivered you parcel. My partner: No, you haven’t. Yodel: Yes, we have. And took a picture. MP: You haven’t. *contacts Ebay seller*. Seller: They say they have. To your address. xMP oYodel: Whe […]

Reactivating this thread, because I’ve just done an install of Linux Mint on an old Toshiba laptop. I had a minor problem altering the laptop’s BIOS to boot from the USB, but making the install was easy on a Mac […]

Plist or the permissions are wrong for something.

An idea from a long time mac user, before doing anything else. It might be that you have a corrupted ‘plist’ (preference) file somewhere. 1/ Boot the mac up, and using Disk Utility, check that the disk has no […]

I just think the nickname Forks is superb. I think it was one of Burt Kocain / H.P Saucecraft’s. I don’t think Forks came back here when the site reappeared after the Great Drupal Outage and the Facebook Hiatus.

Which works admirably. Everywhere bar imgur, which returns a gnomic {“data”:{“error”:”Imgur is temporarily over capacity. Please try again later.”},”success”:false,”status”:403} every time.

Hmm, well they are no use at all. Have installed the free version of Proton VPN…

I’m currently stuck in a loop with imgur, trying to download the images I’d put there. I filled in the form for UK users to request their images. Their guide to downloading your images if you’re in the UK says […]

My guess would be that the review image is hosted on this site (as are our ‘avatars’) but that hosting every image used would have various issues; bandwidth, cost, copyright, images being uploaded and posted elsewhere?

Oh, I agree. The Amazon man always seems run ragged, but he drives too fast off our access and down the lane. Pulls out in front of bikes, and turns left in front of them. Which he did in the space of 5 minutes to […]

Evri’s the worse. They sucked when they were ‘Hermes’. The Evri logo is sh1te, too. Especially when huge on one of their distribution warehouses. Prior to them, Home Delivery Network were so bad, that my […]

My partner certainly was on Street View, gardening away as the camera car went by. Not sure if she’s on the current version.

Fantastic! Good job it wasn’t ‘MUM’? Three of our cats were characters from the The Archers. One had been named ‘Pixie’. He wasn’t. Our first two – still in passwords, so not plain text – went together li […]