Used to be a shop in St. Ives (Cornwall) called Tim’s Tackle.

A local sand and gravel deliverer is Tim’s Tipper.

Another connection.

Supergrass ‘Caught By the Fuzz’ was in the soundtrack to ‘Hot Fuzz’.

As was XTC – Sergeant Rock (Is Going To Help Me).

Famous enough too to get a sketch on ‘Spitting Image’.

Hazlehurst’s Requiem; ‘My soul doth magnify the Lord (tiddley-pom), And my spirit doth rejoice in God, my saviour! (tiddley-pom). . .

The free-to-air audiences for the T20s BBC have shown are impressive, so I suspect you’re right KD.

There’s been some pressure from the ECB in recent years to re-organise the county structure, and reduce the […]

What, ‘crivens’?

Yes, end change after ten balls. Bowlers can deliver five or ten consecutive balls. Each bowler can deliver no more than twenty balls.

I listen to a lot of cricket online and on the radio, it being my preferred background ‘noise’ for working. I’ve found it an odd listen, I think because of the 5-ball ‘overs’ and end changes. Six-balls and change […]

You may be interested to know that Mary Rand’s epic jump is commemorated in her home town (they prefer city) of Wells, in Somerset. It is marked out on the west side of the Market Place (scene of the shootout in H […]

Not a bass solo, but Colin Moulding’s bass burbling through XTC’s ‘Mayor Of Simpleton’ (Oranges & Lemons) is superb. Partridge’s song, but I think they both wrote the bass line. Fast, but not over-showy, it rises […]

‘I know how you feel, Gordon’. Possibly misquoted. . .

Thanks, Gatz. My brain was going Anna Wintour, but I didn’t think that was right.

Impossible, really. My mates are aware of my interests, and are polite enough not to mention them.

I must admit ‘civilians’ really grinds my gears. I think it was coined by someone in the world of fashion shows or film premieres; the masses beyond the carpet (or rope) were ‘just civilians’. Not part of our […]

Bob Mortimer appeared to keep edible items in his pockets, and car boot (pocket-meat and car-meat) in ‘Gone Fishing’.

Love his ‘trapped’ descriptor, for anything in a tin – trapped peas, trapped potatoes.

Is […]

8-1. 8-bloody-1. On penalties?

I had – very politely – declined his request to give them an email address, to send the receipt to. ‘I’ll have to give you a paper one, then’. ‘Yes, please’.

I refrained from saying ‘you can have my email […]

I was buying a rechargeable light for my bicycle. Don’t think I was being pompous!

Re: stating it upfront.

If, like me, you are a *checks contents of undercrackers* bloke, then I think there’s a sort of base assumption that you must – at the very least – be interested in football. Of my […]

Ta. I just have.

He’s usually worth reading, as is William Keegan.

I do read many articles in thegrauniad which are more about the ‘politics’ in sport, especially David Conn.

I don’t hate football, I’m just completely indifferent to it. No interest at all. Nor Rugby Union, nor indeed most sport, bar cricket. Spent a pleasant – and within the regs – evening talking to friends outside […]