The lengths people will go to get back in the comforting bosom of the blog, eh? And I today learnt the Huffington Post is but a smokescreen from @rob-c , awaiting our notice and a mention. Like vampires, the […]

I’ll send the boys some scraps from my first and only. Handily I have left the poptatoes to last, they tending to repeat on me.

Totally reasonable post. We weren’t there.

I can’t think of anything more unnatural, soaking the lovely beetroot in water until all the lovely nature vinegar dissipates.

(Sorry, should have read the obit first)

Wasn’t there Savuka and Juluka?

I remember the first time I heard Scatterlings of Africa, a song I still think makes up for any of the possibly thinner fare a crossover audience were sold as essential

Here’s a rather lovely song about community singing.

(No, it isn’t a trick 😉

@retro-man will be delighted

Oh yeah

@tony-japanese : mid off, silly!
(Is that even right? Long stop was my favoured.)

Not so good when all they do is polish their egos by getting the audience to sing every other song, the more deep cut the better. (Why, hello, Ian McNabb!)

Could have sworn, as I read this first, you best friend was, as it should have been, Alien.
(Does that help, Hubes?)

Good man! This month it seems to be me and me alone, what with holidays and the like which is a bit sad. The moderator is out of his country, Turkey, until the end of the month, which explains some of the dearth, […]

Yup, Billy Joe Jacksonandspears. How did you know?

Cricket? Played it at school. Didn’t like it.

They’d gone by the time I read it today, but possibly not the discussion for a meet the boyfriend session. (It’s bad enough I had to bite my tongue when he said his name was Billy, as I had a friend called Billy […]

Ed’s dead.

Just had a lovely blare of it as I drove to Solihull and back. Triffic stuff, a year end top tenner.

It was in Saturdays Graun. I just read it too as we had visitors yesterday