There seems to be a lot of confusion and misunderstanding around the word ‘skunk’. Skunk #1 is a cannabis strain that was developed in the 1970s. Most of the commercially available seeds for homegrowers are […]

It’ll be squash from now on.

How do I know that your normal is the same as my normal? Normal doesn’t mean we all start from the same point. There is huge variation around the average. Besides, ‘normal’ consciousness has evolved in response […]

I loved Spacemen 3 and the early Spiritualised albums. As well as Lazer Guided Melodies I’d highly recommend the compilation The Complete Works: Volume One. I’ve never found the later stuff as compelling as their […]

@dai It was the town hall, apparently. I spoke with some friends in Abergavenny this afternoon. They know someone who went to that gig as a boy. He claims to have carried their guitars and acted as a guide in […]

Here’s the sketch:

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My sixteen year old daughter had an art class yesterday. Students were asked to come up with drawings inspired by Aesop’s fables. She chose the fable of the fox and the grapes (the origin of the phrase ‘sour […]

Immaculate lawn care.

Must be a branch line.

Based on the available evidence, I think it’s fair to say that Wordle is a game for squares.*

*Hamper assisted steering

Flip out sofa bed.

Sir Clive is lowered head first into a prototype Sinclair C5.

Crown green bowler

They were channeling.

@hubert-rawlinson Please forgive my ignorance, but does Stanshall’s Sir Henry at Rawlisnon End have anything to do with Sir Henry Rawlinson, First Baronet, army officer with the East India Company and pioneer in […]

As a nipper I think my initial fascination was with the album covers. The records inside seemed almost incidental to the picture on the front. La Paloma by Benny Vaughn and his Orchestra always caught my attention […]

I’m adding West Side Story and South Pacific. And perhaps a version of Carmen, the opera. A highlights disc, perhaps.

Indeed.

Father and son tobogganing in the winter sunshine.

No! I didn’t see that. Well that has made me a bit sad. The vast Dark Side of the Moog series he did with Pete Namlook has been one of my favourite releases of the last decade and I was only listening to volume 7 […]