XTC’s Living Through Another Cuba.

‘Its 1961 again, and we are piggy in the middle’.

Think you’ll find that’s 1962, chaps.

XTC – used to go out with Top Cat.

There’s quite a few good ‘names’ south and east of Oxford.

Toot Baldon – poor old ‘Toot’. Jazz legend, in his own lunchtime. Dead at 35, due to a surfeit of Hook Norton ales. Label mate of Sutton […]

The A303 corridor through Wiltshire and Somerset provides both West Indian cricketers – Charlton Musgrove – and long-forgotten actors from the days of rep – Bretton Seymour.

No we don’t. Not officially, anyway. Oh, go on then; got any carcasses you need dissolving?

The farm whose land surrounds us used to make their own, as did one of the farms in the village. Very nice, but […]

George Fenton has written loads of tv themes and incidentals, including;

Wonder if any the shows he wrote for featured;

Rostrum Camera – Ken Morse

in the credits?

What ever happened to all the speedboats that were prizes? Poor things. One surreptitious trip on the Grand Union, and then? . . .

Goldfrapp’s wonderful ‘Clay’, from Tales Of Us. Starts off all softly arpeggioed guitar, strings come in gently bowed, but they get all ‘choppy’ in the last third and it finishes on one big ‘chop’. Middle bit so […]

Here’s the link.

Still seems to be live. Fill your boots. Err, hard drive.

They were – probably still are – available as series of downloads from a cloud service. Several big zip files, each with dozens in them. I think I have a link somewhere, which someone here posted. Must have been […]

Considerably better than many of his previous albums, and quite a nice bit of retro-lettering, needing rather more skill to produce than using some iPhone app.

Not being a Van-fan, but the style looks very […]

I for one will be slightly sorry to see it go, when I move over to Catalina.

Used iTunes since the first version, and never had any problems with it at all.

Interesting that BBC Snouds seems to be […]

F*ck, no. I’m not the designated driver. I’ll have – oh, anything, as long as its not craft and in a tin.

Alexei Sayle’s first series of ‘Stuff’; ‘I’ve just done a modelling assignment. For the Argos catalogue. Bag of things for a pound. That’s one of mine’.

Grey Area; twinned with Roger Irrelevant.

Both my partner and I called it ‘I Clavdivs’ back in the day, and has always been One Din for me. One or other might have been in a Morecambe & Wise?

With the recent ending of the ‘Poldark’ reboot, the ‘One Din Line’ must be next for the redoing. Or ‘I Clavdivs’.

They don’t mind being scrunched up, they’re warm and they wash and dry easily.

Nothing wrong with fleeces.

Apart from one thing.

Those fleeces people wear with designs all over them; a flock of horses […]

The Tinned Beer Comeback (TMFTL) is puzzling.

No, no, Grey, its craft beer. No, its a small, expensive tin of tinned beer. Which as m’learned colleague says tastes of tin. Which adds an interesting tinny […]

When a new version/upgrade of OS X is installed, the install process may trash files that it can’t simply overwrite. If it finds files that have been installed that won’t work anymore, it should prompt you and […]

Don’t get me started on how the last windows 10 updates (two of them) deleted all the music and photos on the pc, despite them being in the right place, ect, ect. Fortunately, backups.

Well, alright, do get me started.