‘How Long’ by Ace is my nomination. Beautifully sung by Paul Carrack, and just as good now than then. I see Amazon have been using it for Prime advertising recently.

I came across this today, relating to one of President Putin’s recent meetings :

‘During this conversation, the president disclosed how he met with a foreign acquaintance of his, who was surprised by busy […]

Good point about the life expectancy, I hadn’t thought of that. In terms of large multi generational families living together here, I have no idea, but I wouldn’t have said that was massively prevalent in the UK […]

You have one image correct, it’s really really cold. There has been at least 1 metre of snow in the past month, and this year the temperature has barely got above zero at all, with lows below Minus 30. You know […]

In the words of Rod Stewart, I don’t want to talk about it.

Not a bot, a real person and been on the Afterword and previously Word forum since the beginning. I’m not trying to agitate anyone, just a genuine personal experience and questioning the UK lockdown. or isn’t […]

I have been living in Moscow since the beginning of the year. Huge City, 12 million people, very similar to London. Except, there’s no lockdown here, kids are in school, all shops restaurants, bars are fully open, […]

One Bar I’ve not seen mentioned is Cadbury’s ‘Country Style’, bits of crunchy biscuit and raisins in a chocolate bar. My dad worked at Cadburys and I had one of those every day for school break time. A big […]

Well, whatever happens in the next few days, it turned out that Biden was completely the wrong candidate to comprehensively defeat Trump. Even if Joe does finally prevail, Trump has still managed to get more […]

You’re not wrong, I just can’t understand it……

Initially masks were worn for anonymity due to the high level of surveillance during the protests. The Govt here fought long and hard to get a law in place that banned the wearing of masks, which got enacted at […]

They are relaxing, there are still rules governing the number of people allowed around a table in restaurants, but they are open as are Places such as Hairdressers and pretty much all shops. Expats tend not to […]

Here in Hong Kong it is effectively compulsory, although by tradition as well as by Govt encouragement. They are worn by virtually everyone in public, both indoors and outdoors. And guess what, in one of the […]

As the OP, a couple of points
This was definitely – to me – validation of my experience ( admittedly very limited ) of my Son’s generation who definitely don’t see any need to learn/retain general inf […]

Blockbuster – The Sweet. Inspired by hearing it on ‘Crackerjack’
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road -Elton John
Roll With It – Steve Winwood, an album mostly overlooked but sounds great
Kraftwerk – Birmingham Town Hall […]

Yes, there was a massive turnout and the Councillors really had no choice.

Great news and a great relief.

I haven’t seen this mentioned anywhere else on the Blog, but in the past month another top Midlands UK music venue, The Leamington Assembly, has closed The day it was announced it was ‘with immediate eff […]