“Now I -don’t- think you wanted to do that!”

You hum it son, I’ll play it.

Nicole..
..Papa.

It must be a while since you were there because they’ve changed it around quite a bit since then. I went to a gig there in January and the gantry and stairs to the stage are gone. The artists dressing room is now […]

It’s getting a bit of a kicking from the historians for playing fast and loose with the chronology of events.
Mark Thatcher getting lost in the desert did not coincide with the Falklands invasion (the thatcher […]

“It are not raining here also.”

“Dave’s not here!”

Hello Peeps…

I think you’ve been going to the wrong barbecues, Gatz. Or at least with the wrong people.
I like a barbecue, UK weather permitting of course. I like the sheer meatiness of it. I’m with Terry Pratchett’s Sam […]

It’ll be interesting to see how Lewis reacts to racing in next year’s brand new Saudi Arabian Grand Prix.
What will he have to say? I wonder, about the kleptocratic dynasty that rules there, effectively keeping a […]

I think, in this case, it’s used in the same sense as it is when someone is referred to as a “TV Personality”.
i.e. Television-Speak.

My jazz immersion this year has resulted in (and benefited from) listening to all the jazz shows on BBC Radio. That’s where a lot of the above list came from. Particularly good for that are Jamie Cullum’s Radio 2 […]

My twenty from 2020. In alphabetical order.

Carla Bley, Andy Sheppard & Steve Swallow – Life Goes On
Eivind Aarset & Jan Bang – Snow Catches On Her Eyelashes
Gary Bartz & Maisha – Night Dreamer Direct-To-Disc […]

A certain proportion of East African Asians, the ones who owned a lot of the country’s businesses, were just as much exploiters of the Africans as the colonial whites had been. Some of them treated their workers […]

There’s a streamed concert on YouTube from singer Liane Carroll (link below) who, when singing “What A Wonderful World” towards the end substitutes “The Brian Blessed Day” for “The Bright Blessed Day” […]

Already have a couple of 3TB drives. I may need to get bigger ones (Moosey!) at some point.

After you’ve watched that one, this is another one to watch, if you can access the BBC iPlayer in your jurisdiction.

In fact that whole Small Axe series looks very promising. The previous one about The Mangrove […]

Thanks peeps.
I downloaded the 4KDownload software and tried it out last night.
Worked really well on a long (1 hour 23 minute) YouTube concert clip I wanted to keep.
I now have a 1920×1080 30fps copy in MP4 […]

An old friend in Sheffield has been part of the trial and hasn’t yet croaked or become ill.
The Astra-Zenaca vaccine team claim a 70% success rate with one dose, 90% with one and a half doses, so far. Far cheaper […]