It’s on pre order, my phone should start reading it to me during my daily walk on Tuesday and I’m really looking forward to it.
For anyone wanting an abridged version, it’s book of the week this week on radio 4.

I’m not suggesting that the Roy Wood album isn’t worthy of a first album, my younger brother bought it as one of his first ones and ( at least) half of it is very good but did you greet it out of a bargain bin?

I’ve always liked marzipan. Perfect on a christmas cake or wrapped round a battenberg cake. But one of it’s best uses is to replace the stone in a dates!

I have a 330cl bottle of beer with my tea every day. I don’t intend to stop. I don’t drink to get drunk, in fact if I could have exactly the same taste with no alcohol, I’d be first in line but so far the only […]

Oh yes…i don’t think it’s worth as much as you might think though. Discogs median is $55. This is probably a thread on its own but I have a copy of Yodelling by The Exits that’s listed as $666. My copy is hardly […]

I know, because of its significance, that you’re fat more likely to remember the price than me but I’m amazed that singles had gone up that fast. I’ve still got my copy of anarchy in the UK that has a 69p sticker on it.

Single: Banner Man by Blue Mink. Still a great pop song…. and still desperately uncool!
Album: Billion Dollar Babies by Alice Cooper…. this probably marks the point I noticed my parents were starting to […]

That’s another example of how things have changed, when i started university in the mid 70s I don’t think I actually had anything like a passport. The only thing i had to identify me was my birth certificate.

I didn’t take it as such. I’m on holiday and you’d have to push me much harder than that to break me!
Having said that, if anyone can suggest any alternative that I can seamlessly move over to that’ll allow me […]

Like it or not, if you only use iTunes to organise your music and podcasts, it’s very nice to use….. once you’ve changed all the settings so it looks like it did 10 years ago!
I know its resource hungry but […]

Also, it’s best to use letters a decent way up the alphabet where you can be more sure of them not clashing with something else. If you have a drive that you only use for iTunes, maybe call it the i drive and then […]

Does Amazon need to pile it high anymore? Once most of us are signed up to a streaming service ( and Amazon are keen on this too ) there’s really no hurry to get the physical item. If I like something, if I’ve […]

Of course! Cold (ie refrigerated) beans enhance any salad.

Cheese and beans is a fairly standard jacket potato topping.
My evening salad always has cheese on my jacket spud and very often cold beans on the side straight from the fridge.

We used to have mashed bananas mixed with some brown sugar and evaporated milk…. part of that was good for us!
Why weren’t we just encouraged to eat a banana straight from it’s own natural packet?

My Audi A1 DSG does it too. It works well but I’m not entirely convinced it saves me any fuel.
Its not a new feature, I had a mk1 golf back in 1980 and it wasn’t unusual for the engine to stop as soon as the car […]

It may be a bit of a hoary comparison but people still listen to the likes of Beethoven and Mozart and I’m pretty sure they’re not confined to the first wave that followed them around on their European […]

I guess having stopped eating meat over 30 years ago means there’s lots of things I’ve not had but I don’t miss any of those.
Something I used to have at college was cheese on toast, topped with tinned spaghetti […]

My a level results were also not good enough which is why I’d never even visited the place before I turned up on my first day. I struggled with exams all the way through and I like to think of myself as an […]