Talking of Scatterbrain..

Deke Leonard’s first two, “Rhinos, Winos and Lunatics” and “Maybe I Should Have Stayed in Bed?” are excellent reads. Especially the latter. “The Twang Dynasty” is a bit less interesting.

There is a culture clash here, for men particularly, between the 20th century way and the 21st century way.
Culturally, men avoided shopping except for tools or hardware and left the rest of it to the women. […]

Yer average punter is easily swayed. Like it or not this is a fact.
A mind-boggling amount of money gets spent on telling people they need those superstores and those Tory politicians. The people behind it all […]

With you completely on the free parking, Tiggs.
Hammer illegal street parking by all means, but plenty of free parking in or near town centres can only be a good thing.

Eivind Aarset, of course.

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Sidsel Endresen, with Bugge Wesseltoft.

Love this song.

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And this one too.

Iggy Pop as crooner?
Scary stuff..

Uptempo?
OK.

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I think I may have my dirty dozen sorted already.

Just the right theme, as I was thinking that my selections for this year’s swap should be from 2021 releases only.

They never wait. They’re on too tight a schedule for that.
Same with redelivery.

Since lockdown, every Amazon delivery just gets left on the mat outside my door. They don’t always knock, or at least not always audibly. Fortunately none of my neighbours are thieves.

The “why” of it is where I’m at a loss also.

It’s gonna be chicken for Mr. Jordan.

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Or perhaps some of this

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Joe Harriott would go West African with some Blighia Sapida, no doubt.

Deadly seeds and bad for you if unripe.

’80s Shane beats ’70s Keef by a few caries.

As usual, Marina Hyde says it better than I could.

It’s mostly the fact they went into it seemingly without a moment’s consideration of what to do after.
Simply titanic hubris.
Being simultaneously embroiled in Afghanistan with no real plan didn’t exactly help.

In again.
I was just wondering myself if a swapfest was due.