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GCU Grey Area commented on the post, Has any TV show pissed away it's fanbase goodwill as fundamentally as Dr Who? 2 weeks, 2 days ago
@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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GCU Grey Area commented on the post, Has any TV show pissed away it's fanbase goodwill as fundamentally as Dr Who? 2 weeks, 5 days ago
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 […]
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GCU Grey Area commented on the post, What do these have in common? 4 weeks ago
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 […]
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GCU Grey Area commented on the post, Norm…! 4 weeks ago
From the ‘Fesshole’ social media account; one of Rob Manuel’s, who runs B3TA.
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GCU Grey Area commented on the post, Norm…! 4 weeks ago
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 […]
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GCU Grey Area commented on the post, Norm…! 1 month ago
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 […]
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GCU Grey Area commented on the post, Go West 1 month, 1 week ago
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.
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GCU Grey Area commented on the post, Pompeii Intro 1 month, 1 week ago
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; […]
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GCU Grey Area commented on the post, Pompeii Intro 1 month, 2 weeks ago
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.
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GCU Grey Area commented on the post, Sports people who are also musicians 1 month, 3 weeks ago
And not though not a sportsman, former owner of Jordan – the late Eddie – played drums.
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GCU Grey Area commented on the post, Wonderful traditional acoustic instruments – istanbul 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Bill Bailey has used some very Eastern-looking stringed instruments on tour. A Saz was one, but it was a custom-made, electro-acoustic.
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GCU Grey Area commented on the post, Everyday Carry – EDC 1 month, 4 weeks ago
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.
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GCU Grey Area commented on the post, A small favour- gratitude 2 months, 1 week ago
Done.
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GCU Grey Area commented on the post, Jim Morrison dies again… RIP Val Kilmer 2 months, 2 weeks ago
‘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 […]
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GCU Grey Area commented on the post, God I love Prog! 3 months ago
Orange-jumpsuit Phase. Three more from them later…
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GCU Grey Area commented on the post, So, Blue sky then – how has it been for you? 3 months, 3 weeks ago
An awful lot of the record covers you post are really good designs, too.
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GCU Grey Area commented on the post, ATM – Films or books whose plots are resolved by the discovery of long-lost letters or legal papers 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Beau Geste, by P.C Wren. A letter from the SPOILER late Micheal ‘Beau’ Geste reveals the real reason why the ‘Blue Water’ diamond disappeared, and practically every male member of the Geste family joined the Fre […]
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GCU Grey Area commented on the post, Rick Buckler RIP 4 months ago
I never saw The Jam, but did see Rick Butler and his band – must have been around 1983.
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GCU Grey Area commented on the post, Songs that sound like James Bond themes but aren`t James Bond themes 4 months, 3 weeks ago
There are several tracks on ‘Tales Of Us’ that are Bond-esque. ‘Stranger’ in particular, with the orchestral bit.
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GCU Grey Area commented on the post, Steely Dan – Katy Lied 4 months, 3 weeks ago
I love Steely Dan, but I’d struggle to hum one of the songs on it. I don’t know what is about Katy Lied, but it doesn’t ‘stick’.
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