I have been playing a lot of Morricone lately and had just put The Good, The Bad & The Ugly on this morning when the news alert popped up on my phone. A bit of a spooky moment but unfortunately I do not have any […]

I really thought this was about a new song by Dylan.

Surely Tranmere would only have played at home every second Friday while the Tube was a weekly show. It’s a nice story but it doesn’t really add up.

I’m retired so lockdown has not made a huge difference to my lifestyle, although all the queueing outside chemists reminds me why I don’t like theme parks and coronaland is becoming one of my least favourite. Not […]

It does seem odd that he does not get a namecheck when he would have been the responsible Minister at the time when many of the policy decisions that led to the problems with preparedness occured.

On the other […]

Captain Scarlet and Stingray were my favourites. I’m pretty sure I can recall an episode of Stingray which took place in a goldfish bowl? And I know there was an episode of thunderbirds in which baby alligators […]

Awful. I had to turn it off after a minute.

Skimmed it but it looks like a scam to me. Does he get paid by the volume of italics and words in bold?

A modern western that surprised me with its quality is Open Range, despite the presence of Kevin Costner.

I’ve got one of these. It’s pretty good and has rejuvenated records that are over 30 years old in some cases. I don’t think you’d regret getting one. Noisy bugger though as he points out.

I have a Linn Sondek too!

I read the sequel to his most famous book and it was probably the most awful and ridiculous book I have ever read. I will never read another book by him.

THE GODFATHER

Overlong snoozefest glorifying brutal crooks which mainly functions as a vehicle for some of the USA’s most prominent overactors of the 1970s to establish which of them is the greatest ham (Marlon […]

Good to know that death has not hampered Warren’s employability either.

I haven’t seen the latest Avengers film yet but the other day one of my granddaughters happily recited a list for me of the major characters who die. I retaliated by telling her they all come back to life in the next film.

That’s not true. The legislation that covers credit cards does not apply to debit cards; I know this because I used to be responsible for it.

Of course, a bank can unilaterally decide that they will give cover […]

5 looks like an unfair contract term to me but it’s a long time since I did consumer law. As I recall, you should be able to claim the lot from the card provider but I’m not sure how the involvement of paypal […]

Definitely – it’s breech of contract at the very least and you should be able to sue for the refund. Although your prospects of getting it aren’t good if they’re in administration. You’ll be an unsecured creditor […]

Great game,marred a bit by the inane babbling from the commentators. Particularly impressed by Murphy’s claim that Ronaldo could not score from the free kick by bending it around the wall but would have to blast […]

I think he was consistently pushing out great albums during the Columbia era, only faltering in the comeback years when the chops and inspiration faltered. Even then there are some good tracks to be found but […]