Nice to acknowledge the mundane events in life, though.

‘Cheers, drive*’ as you dismount.

* pronunciation becomes ‘droive’, the nearer you get to Bristol.

Rough Trade in Brizzle has the most irritating filing for its records. Alphabetically, but within their categories. You have to know the vinly you’re looking for is a 1960s, US group.

What is wrong with having […]

Possible spoiler alert.

There’s a similar paradox in Terry Pratchett’s truly great novel ‘The Night Watch’, in which Sam Vimes goes back in time to the pivotal moment in the City Watch’s past. He is accepted as […]

One of the scanners at Musgrove makes a noise like a tambourine being struck, overlaid with a meaty doof-doof.

It reminded me of something; its very similar to Run DMC’s ‘Its Like That’.

Drove past the Burnham-on-Sea pub only last Thursday. Used to be a work colleague’s local.

There are two pubs which I think of as my local.

The first is in the nearest town, and I’ve been going to it as long as I’ve lived in Somerset, some thirty years or so. Small, comfortable and usually idiot-free. […]

Quite made my day when H.P popped up on the iPod thread.

Whither @moose-the-mooche ? Not seen Moosey for ages now. Doesn’t seem right to add ‘hurrr’ to a thread, even if someone says obvious filth like ‘pump-charge’.

I have never fallen on my MBP or my vacuum cleaner hose in the nude.

Well. I was staying with one of sisters, and was doing some work on my MacBook Pro. It started behaving rather oddly, with software opening and closing of its own accord and Finder windows whizzing around. Turned […]

A funny* thing once happened to me with an Apple Remote.

*Not really.

A 3.5mm jack plug socket can be carefully cleaned with a cotton bud. You may have to take some of the cotton off to get it in the socket. Try with just breath first. A drop of meths, lighter fluid or electrical […]

The great Swedish rally driver – and later, Saab ‘ambassador’ – Eric Carlson was ‘Carlson på taket’, when his sideways style in his Saabs got a wee bit overcooked.

Sub Sub – Past.

Think they became ‘Doves’?

The original is only a couple of minutes long, and looking on ver ‘Tube, it seems I’m not the only to think that’s not enough.

Heard it first on the first ‘Chilled […]

I saw the Albion Dance Band round about the time of their ‘Prospect Before Us ‘ record. Mattacks on drums (comes in around 0.54).

Warning; contains traces of crumhorn. Huzzah!

I love both of the first two, but have never got to grips with the third. My loss. Chris Woods is wonderful on Sweet Jane and The Handweaver and the Factory Maid.

1 – Wasp Star – XTC
2 – Seventh Tree – Goldfrapp
3 – Tales Of Us – Goldfrapp
4 – The Imagined Village – The Imagined Village
5 – Empire and Love – The Imagined Village
6 – La Revancha Del Tango – Gotan […]

Thanks for that. I shall go away and have a think.

At the budget end, I suspect. I could go to about what a pair of those JBLs and an Audioquest DAC would cost.

Oh, lordy. Fitted with a DAC?Any recommendations!?

This thread takes me back to about three years ago, when the first of the low-energy bulbs we bought went phut. In the shop; but what are all these LED […]

That’s useful to know. I was going to start a thread up about what speakers I should consider to replace a pair of trusty Yamahas plugged into my computers, and those go onto my list.