I agree about Cigarettes After Sex – the worst name I’ve ever heard for a band. And so at odds with the lovely noise they make. They have to change it surely?

It does look well balanced, but England are really suffering from the lack of a quality spinner aren’t they? Once the ball is bit old Moeen just isn’t good enough to hold an end so the seamers can rotate at the […]

Here are the votes from the Whalley Range jury:

Penguin Cafe – Imperfect Sea
Rhiannon Giddens – Freedom Highway
Spoon – Hot Thoughts
Aimee Mann – Mental Illness
The National – Sleep Well Beast
Jason Isbell […]

They did well. Need to score another 150ish to put Australia under any real pressure I think, though their batting doesn’t look significantly more robust than ours. But the lack of pace in our attack might mean […]

I agree about Mary – one of the loveliest songs of the year. How about this – Another World by Miranda Lee Richards.

I think I’ve posted this before, but this may be of interest.

A teacher friend of mine had a girl in one of his classes called L-a. It was pronounced Ledasha.

Just remembered, another one that always works well is taking a couple of news events from last year and asking which month they happened in. If it is a round of ten questions and each month will only appear once […]

Whenever I have run quizzes I have found that a “top to tail” round – where the last letter of the previous answer is the first letter of the next answer – works well. It makes for plenty of discussion around […]

Oh, and this one!

Here are a few of my favourites:

All better than the originals in my view.

Surely the correct answer is Wichita Lineman?

Back to Apple Tree Yard, would they really both have been tried together? I know almost nothing about legal procedure, but would have thought that each would have a separate trial?

I was there for this:

…and this…

I also attended a number of less enjoyable Ashes tests in the intervening years.

Okay here goes:

PJ Harvey – The Orange Monkey
Bibio – Haikuesque (The Gentleman Losers Whispers In The Rain Mix)
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band – Backstreets (Live in East Rutherford 1984)
Nick […]

How about this?

It’s not really a “proper” LP – it’s a soundtrack to a film about Dylan Thomas. Only 3 or 4 full songs, but lots of lovely, lush instrumental stuff. And the title track is a real doozy.

1. Laura Gibson – Empire Builder
2. Radiohead – A Moon Shaped Pool
3. The Avalanches – Wildflower
4. Teleman – Brilliant Sanity
5. Whyte Horses – Pop Or Not?
6. Miranda Lee Richards– Echoes Of The Dreamtime […]

Yep, Mrs H and I also made to bulb by this. Possibly due partly to the tiredness that accompanies picking up this little one yesterday….

Rufus

That’s great – further investigation necessary…..