*applause*

I’m Devon as regards the order; cream, then jam, because the cream is butter. However comma one of my friends puts butter first, then cream, then jam which I think offends both Cornwall and Devon t […]

Thank you. Cream first, of course.

Sir John and I are taking the train from Evercreech Junction to Highbridge and then Burnham-on-Sea.

They are always there when young women in receipt of their A-level results are jumping in the air.

*applauds*

Van De Graaf had already done Light House Keepers…

Prince’s ‘There’s Two Ways You Can Go To Urmston’.

If only the Somerset and Dorset railway was still extant (spoiler: it isn’t) you could actually get a train through the festival site, either stopping at Evercreech Junction or West Pennard. *sings On the Slow T […]

Not for the driver, no. I find about 30 seconds of thrrrrrrrrrrrbrrrrrrrrrpppppp is allowed, before the driver puts my window up.

A very satisfactory noise can be produced by stringing an elastic band between thumb and fingers, and then sticking the hand out of the car window as it is moving. Car speed changes the note, as does tightening the band.

‘If there’s a Razzle in your hedgerow, don’t be alarmed now’, as Mr Plant doesn’t sing in Stairway to Heaven’.

I think we did the dance stuff if it was too wet to go out and play rounders or football. MM&M was in the first couple of years at primary, CD was later.

Used to have these lead weights about the size and shape of a computer mouse to aid the process. Some sort of leatherette on top, with a cork-covered base.

And a gentleman…

Not only did we have Music, Mime and Movement (the order of these three may not be correct) at Primary School, we also did Country Dances, with Miss Pierce at the piano. Brighton Camp was one.

Oh deep joy. My true skill. Joining pieces of paper together. In the days of large paper maps, copied in A3 chunks.

The trick is to allow an overlap, put the two pieces on a light table, overlap, cut through […]

They are fab plants. We’ve got Cardoons (TMFTL?) which are just as big. No need to paint the greenhouse white, just plant a Cardoon nearby. Instant shade. And the bees love the thistle-like flowers.

There’s at least one website devoted to the graphics in the first Blade Runner, and the depth of detail in it; not just the advertising ‘hoardings’, but down to things like the magazines for sale on news-stalls. […]

When the first films came out, there was an exhibition in one of the London museums, in that London, featuring some of the models used in filming. What struck me at the time – and what Lucas wanted – was for the […]

‘The first wave of Basque chamber folk starts here’.

The album is a bit Penguin Cafe Orchestra-ish. I’ve got it in my iTunes library. I seem to remember that it was available as a (legitimate) free […]

‘Not the face’.

Putting the gall in Hallogallo. Possibly…