Pencil, you should be celebrating, in fact we all should be celebrating your birthday, as a big two fingers up to the Brexiteers!

We must not let the bastards take away all our moments of joy.

I agree that ”they” feels odd.

Those sensible Swedes have created a gender neutral pronoun to avoid this problem.

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Eddy to Megaherz was a pretty classy segué!

Anything that is likened to the Delines gets my interest. And I was already keen after Eddy’s first album.

Amazing! Mrs Marietta Clinkscales. You could not make that up!

Duke was not the best student either.

You are spoilt for choice! Remarkable!

I will browse around and learn more about these idiosyncratic establishments, Mike.

Correction! The ABC in Ipswich.

A city of which I know nothing except that my parents met there. So I owe it one!

Cinema occupations are not uncommon .I hear that the ABC Norwich was taken over in the 80s when threatened with closure.

That story led me to this.

Going slightly “off piste” for a moment. Unusual for me, I know but…..

Hubert’s comment about the cinema run by volunteers made me think of the “occupied cinemas”

They are described in that report I m […]

Another list of the best of the year, where a couple of Marmite films get a thumbs up.

If you are interested in how different community cinemas function throughout Europe, this is an excellent read. Inspiring!

Bio Rio, where the Duke and I saw Fleabag, gets a mention.

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Sorry to hear about your struggles, Paul. I wish you luck.

My 16 year old son also refers to the Swedish cops as the Feds. I suspect this is something he as picked up from YouTube.

I would enjoy a thread […]

How extremely frustrating. You have to be in the UK to watch it.

Shame! It would be particularly interesting as I grew up in Pinner.

Oh well! Thanks anyway, Alias.

Amazing all the stuff that is out there.

Very illuminating article about Billy Strayhorn.

Ellington recorded a tribute album to Billy in 1967, after his friend’s death from cancer.

Here is a track.

What a song! Talk about a standard. So many versions!

Jan Lundgren Trio

Donna Summer

Bill Friisell

Jeanette Lindström

Zara nicked the title (unwittingly?) and had a MEGA hit.

I am quite delighted and inspired to read abut all these local cinemas and how well they are doing.

I’ve been browsing a little about the Hippodrome and the Silent Film Festival.

Here is an interview with NFT […]

The Hippodrome have their own Silent Film Festival. The only one in Scotland and it has all sorts of ambitious, inspiring ideas.

Sounds very interesting.

Poor sod! I hope he makes a full recovery.

I was rather surprised to read that Greg had written his memoirs. That says how popular the Wiggles were.

That was a real treat. It captures the zeitgeist very well.

Let’s take a wee trip to Paris in 1965.

That show taught me a few new things about Radka and reminded me how gifted she was. Just to remind you…

Kids are fascinated by a cinema screen and sent to touch it. The last thing a Projectionist wants is lots of grubby pawprints.