I currently have three old Macs – one in use, two spares – which run a long obsolete Mac operating system. The reason being I still use the vector-drawing software Macromedia Freehand, which on a Mac does not run […]

Henderson’s alternatives can be be found in the ‘Geo. Watkins’ range. Their mushroom ketchup is very good, especially in a stew. Probably, again, not in Bloody Mary…

‘Hendersons, but with a dash of Balsamic and malt vinegar, too. Monster, monster…’ In cooking, dunno about a cocktail.

Oh, wonderful, Sal! I remember that thread. I do miss Fake/Faux Geordie aka ‘Forks’. And indeed Moose.

@podicle There’s a Tardis-esque garden shed in Stiffkey, Norfolk. We had a couple of nice holidays in one of those cottages. The Red Lion in Stiffkey is only a few metres west.

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Courtney was in an episode of Yes Minister, playing a senior Met policeman at a diplomatic ‘do’, though very much in Brigadier-mode. After being introduced to a guest from abroad he said ‘Ah, yes, UNESCO; pluck […]

The secondary school I went to was a comprehensive, but started as a grammar. It still had houses, named after three of the local streams/rivers which feed into the Thames. Evenlode, Glyme and Windrush. Red, blue […]

From the ‘Fesshole’ social media account; one of Rob Manuel’s, who runs B3TA.

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Yes! They should have renamed it Wrington, when they moved a few years ago. I’ve been drinking it since it was owned by the guy who was ex-Courage, and used a load of secondhand gear. One of my faves, along […]

If its any consolation, the pub in the nearby town which is my ‘local’ – I’ve been going there for well over 30 years, through at least 6 landlords – seems to remember me. The last time I went in, a few month […]

I remember an episode of The Tube they were on, which was the first time I’d heard them. One of Murphy’s strings broke, and they carried on. Love the first two records of theirs.

We go to the Corn Street area quite regularly on a Saturday. Lunch is usually one of those Kurdish naan ‘wraps’ from the fantastic ‘Matina’. There’s a couple of quite nice ‘made in Bristol’ places in the middle; […]

Foxy, isn’t the one on Broadmead still open? On the east leg of Broadmead, roughly opposite Costa. I know everything’s roughly opposite Costa, in the multiverse. Where the German Market is at the appropriate time.

And not though not a sportsman, former owner of Jordan – the late Eddie – played drums.

Bill Bailey has used some very Eastern-looking stringed instruments on tour. A Saz was one, but it was a custom-made, electro-acoustic.

I have a ‘get you home’ pack, which I carry on the bikes. Contains a leatherman-type multi-tool, a folding set of bike-sized Allen keys, puncture repair kit and a couple of lengths of wire.

Done.

‘Most def, mos definitely, the rap sheet The new release, time to make cream, time to take a piece, And at the same time, time to build, time is rilla I swear I bring the heat, the tracks to Val […]

Orange-jumpsuit Phase. Three more from them later…

An awful lot of the record covers you post are really good designs, too.