Used to be one called ‘Concrete Quarterly’, which was actually really good. Aimed at architects / engineers / planners and full of pictures of – errr – concrete things.

‘Total Carp’ is one of the best-named […]

That’s lovely. Toads in Amplexus.

Oh dear, my brain is stuck in three more from them mode.

Sperrmull. Surely a little known ‘kosmiche’ group of the 70s?

Uppity up.

And yet, they are one of those bands that I don’t particularly like, but nonetheless admire for what they do. Especially the guy on the laptop, who makes absolutely no pretense at ‘playing’ anything at […]

Nothing quite like a Fizzy Vimto Burp. TMFTL. . .

Hyuk-hyuk-hyuk was probably retired when Sid James died.

I’ve got this vague feeling that ‘Arf’ was used by a character in a comic I read as a child. Not a human character; possibly a dog, whose only dialogue was ‘Arf’.

Some time ago on here – possibly on its first iteration that suffered the Great Drupal Unpleasantness – was a thread about pitching a tv series for a pop/rock personality. I think a couple of us pitched ‘Van M […]

‘Now let’s go onto something ruder. Wankel Rotary Engine.’

What I don’t get are the people who put what I assume is some sort of pop-off valve somewhere on their engine. When the valve actuates, the car first of all sounds like its sucking air in over its teeth, and then […]

Your Mk.V would struggle to even take off with that payload, its single-stage Merlin half-choked by its silly Vokes tropical filter.

By the time you’d extracted it from the nearest Razzle-filled hedgerow, my […]

That’s true, but the PR.XI would soar over the top of your Mk.V, whose outer wings would fall off whenever the outer cannon were fired.

Gay is a little harsh. The mac it is used with came with the […]

Two 1/48th scale I’ve made. PR.XI at the back, the prototype in the foreground. PR is the ancient Otaki/Arii kit, with some parts from the early Airfix Vb kit. Detailed cockpit and cameras. The prototype is the […]

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Pink Floyd’s album ‘Anals’.

From the album ‘Disciple’.

WHSmug as Private Eye call them have the most disgusting carpets in the High Street, as a twitter account observes. And ridiculously high shop units. And tat piled
up in the gangways, preventing wheelchair […]

The casting for the characters of Will, Lyra and Lee Scoresby in HDM are brilliant, especially the latter. I just hope that they don’t muck up the ‘Mulefa’ in the ‘Amber Spyglass’ – one of the best alien interacti […]

The – ongoing – BBC series of HDM is well worth watching, KFD.

Denis Villeneuve is doing Dune, and the trailer looks very good.

Books like Dune aren’t so much difficult to film, but difficult to film in a way […]

Sainsburys sell multi-packs of socks in dayglow orange, yellow, pink, green, red and blue. I wear different colours on each foot.

I’m pretty sure I had the Ace paperback edition, which is predominantly orange. It has/had a Chris Foss spaceship (or knock-off) and the titling in what could be the font ‘Triline’; the cover is the image on the […]