Its fine. Its our Spear & Jackson digging fork that worries me. It creaks noticeably in use, and I will soon have to turn about 1 cubic metre of compost from No. 1 heap into No.2.

I saw a half brick today, but it only had half the name in the frog (i think that’s what the concave bit is called), so not very collectable.

I must go and check our rain gauge. . .

There was once a huge brick and tile industry in ‘our’ part of Somerset, and many of the tiles and coping stones on our house have stamps on them saying who made them. There were some very vivid glazed roof tiles […]

They often don’t survive the de-wheel trim incident, but one that did is used as the base of a ‘hop wreath’. We have hops at the bottom of the garden, and wrap the bines-in-flower around the wire circle, and dry them.

About this time last year, not far from the village, I saw loads of cassette tape billowing along the verge of the road.

I have a small collection of lost hubcaps/plastic wheel trims. I spray them bright […]

I’m going to something really boring today.

I recently bought a new Wacom Intuos graphics tablet, and have discovered an irritating flaw with it. I use it on Macs. One of the ways on a Mac that you can change a […]

Is the correct answer n + 1, where n = the number of dildos one already owns?

‘Minnellium’.

(Victoria Wood, Dinner Ladies)

I’d buy that if it were on CD. Really nice to work to.

A couple of the tracks remind me a bit of Poppy Ackroyd in the way stuff is treated and looped, and also Tunng.

Talk Talk – The Colour Of Spring.

Bought for £1 in a charity shop several years ago. Played once, confirming Life’s What You Make It is brilliant, and then put to one side.

About six months before Mark […]

Oh, the Spuntmeister. Is he still with us? Used to get very upset if his wiper blades weren’t genuine Uniparts, for a Rover P6.

King Crimson think they’re so different with their three drummer frontline, but […]

What a lot of bass-players we are.

I’m the bass-playing lyricist of ‘Apprehensive Coastguards’, on the ‘Famous Tumfuttle’ label.

Usually a black Fender Precision, but sometimes – for old-times sake – one of my […]

Anyone any idea why Colin appeared to pull the plug on future TC&I activity? Seemed odd to go to all the trouble of rehearsing and playing and then apparently saying he was all done with it.

My partner went to Glastonbury, as she has done many times.

She saw ‘Puppetry Of The Penis’, who had a special guest; a woman who was able to play a wind instrument by pushing air out through it when placed into […]

‘Crimso’ seems to be used a lot by Robert Fripp in reference to his band.

Lucky Brian. There is are now none Fopps in Brizzle.

Also; Tommy Cooper Studies. ‘A Man walked into a bar. It was an iron bar. Discuss.’

I score two. Nearly three.

Grauniad reader since 1979, I now only buy on Saturdays* and occasionally Fridays.

*The comics are now wrapped in a bio-degradable bag, which goes in the food waste caddy. Huzzah. It […]

The Clangers spoke English, but through the medium of interpretive swanny-whistle. All the noises they made were scripted, including ‘I can’t open these bloody doors’ (or similar) in one scene.

Cheers, duco. I knew it had been lifted from Shelley; the record came out when I was at college, and one of the lecturers on part of the course pointed it out. Great line. Oh yeah. . .