Funnily enough the biggest improvement for me was on Something, which in my old CD version (and what I remember of the vinyl) was too muddy to be the work of towering genius everyone else seems to see it as. I […]

Aha, another football single. Mine was Back Home by the England 1970 World Cup squad (b side Cinnamon stick. I had no idea what one of those was for years)
Album – a collection of Beatles oldies but Goldies (in […]

Oddly enough without looking at the name on the clip I thought it was Ian Brown – never knowingly properly dressed.

Good for him. Nice to see a rich rocker doing what he fancies rather than just playing enormo-domes for the dosh. (The only time I saw him he was singing swing jazz in the early 80s – much to the annoyance of […]

No Oblivious?

So much depends on circumstances. If I won £100m on the lottery I would buy a house opposite the British Museum.

As a Yorkshireman I am of course contractually obliged to say Yorkshire, though for a long time […]

Late 80’s I was on holiday island hopping in Greece. Fell in with some folks, including a couple of Aussie girls who fell in with a couple of Yanks. You know what it is like. Lads were great, but they made a […]

I would say that is a strong candidate. I love Alnwick, Alnmouth, Berwick, Banburgh….
But it isn’t terribly easy to commute. Even to Newcastle I suspect.

My Volvo (I know) and the GLWs Hyundai both automatically stop the engine when the car stops. Seems to be a thing on new cars. My 2006 Mitsubishi didn’t

Post 1975 has reached East Hull now has it? It h […]

Stephen Donaldson’s The Real Story is an excellent novella, and bookshelf worth of extra stuff.
(I’ve never read Thomas Covenant, so maybe I just don’t get his style)

Six – you’ve forgotten the film with Martin Freeman. Which is understandable.
In fact I think 7 because there was a computer game too.
Does the radio version of the later books count as 8?

so long and thanks for all the fish shows signs of DNA being sick to teeth of HHGG but it being his cash cow. Everything in it is more or less forgotten for the next book

It has been referred to in SF as “plot armour” – that protects the lead character from any lasting harm.
Occasionally subverted – my favourite being Neil Gaiman’s Black Orchid, where the titular character dies on […]

I felt The Algebraist was a bit IMB by numbers, but the later Culture novels were better.
The stand outs for me are Use of Weapons (which I always think of as a companion piece to Complicity) and Excession.
And […]

Another vote for Farscape. And Firefly.

1999 to 2002 and the marvellous return.

My gripes: the good place should be top 10. And so should Community (well maybe not the gas leak year)

Smith was the difference.

When I had a band with some mates all of us had a wife/girlfriend called Sue. I wanted to call us the wives of Sue. I was right over ruled.

Loved the band of Susan’s.

My recommendation is somewhere you can walk to, or at least go home every night. For me that is Bingley but there are lots of little festivals these days – heavy on the music, but not the whole “festival e […]

My mate who is a Cropredy regular of 20 odd years says no one minds you just plonking your folding car down in the field and sitting there with a pint all day..

His story is queuing for the bar when a brummy […]