Haven’t posted on here for a while but couldn’t resist having my two penn’orth on this topic having got out of corporate HR life many years ago to go into … careers work at a university. Best decision I ever […]

I stuck to the 5:2 way of eating for two and half years because it worked for me, by helping keep weekly calories in check (I’m the kind of person who rarely binges but could graze forever). It also kept my size […]

The Washington Post got it right yesterday in their “The Week in One Song” post – they chose a Peel session of The Fall’s “The War Against Intelligence”

Dave – our paths have only passed briefly a couple of times when you came to NW mingles, so you won’t remember me, but you, like a lot of “the massive” appear on my twitter timeline, including last night. You’ve […]

Nooooooooo!!! Not Mose.

I was talking to a friend this morning about the death of Leonard Cohen, and the merits of buying multi-album boxed sets of his back catalogue. I said I preferred to buy even old albums […]

Glad to spread the word! We still go occasionally – Jim Lovell at Pontefract was our last one. Now if only Gene Kranz would come over to the UK … (loved seeing his white Apollo 13 vest in the Smithsonian earlier […]

Just back from Portmeirion yesterday. Bit frustrating to see all the festival paraphernalia getting all set up, knowing I wasn’t going to see anything, but acting as the advance party, if things get too hot to […]

Let’s call a truce – a Manc singing with a Yorkshire brass band with a video of a Lancashire canal:

Thanks so much to both of you – who’d have thought we’d still be trundling on all these years after the demise of the Word? Oddly enough, Hannah’s profile popped up on my LinkedIn account today (must have a mutual […]

What do you think of it so far?

My sister brought home her school class budgie for the Easter holidays. To her embarrassment, my dad and a friend spent the holidays teaching it the answer to the above.

So you’re telling me that photo’s NOT photoshopped?!!! I just assumed it had to be a piss-take (but a good one).

*wanders off shaking head in utter disbelief*

Now it’s Jarvis and Radcliffe & Maconie. Previously, Annie Nightingale on … was it Saturday or Sunday afternoons? TV on the radio on the headphones on lonely Friday nights, introducing me to prog & metal which […]

I went to a “not quite totally new but massively expanded” school, as the town turned comprehensive, the year I went to secondary school. Still can’t get my head round the fact that our “new” school was demolished […]

Years ago I found our cat rolling round on a seed tray of dried-out catnip seedlings in the greenhouse. Didn’t think anything of it until a couple of days later when her personality changed completely, she took up […]

Bingo – brilliant, thank you!! I think you’ve just solved a work problem I’ve been pondering over today. Though I’d never heard the term before, a reverse mentor (or 2 or 3) is exactly what I need.

I work with […]

Really enjoyed that Colin – will look out for it in Feb.

Stood behind Ian Brown in a garden centre near Knutsford, buying grass … seed.

Passed Colin Moulding in BHS in Swindon – the only time I’ve seen any of XTC live 🙁

Another jazz harpist, Casper Reardon, along with trombonist, Jack Teagarden’s band – Junk Man:

As soon as I heard this on a compilation, I had to go and find out more.

Thanks for those – I’ll have to check them out. This year the only new jazz I’ve bought has been Andy Sheppard’s “Surrounded by Sea”, which I loved, especially “I Want to Vanish” (though hadn’t remembered it was […]

That’s great – I ended up taping it from the red button channel last night, so wasn’t sure if it was still there this morning. I guess as the BBS have announced the likely closure of “red button” services, we’ll […]