Computer says no!

I had to look up Ivor Lewis. It looks like what I had, but my surgeon didn’t go for the keyhole approach but the one that leaves a pair of very impressive scars and involved breaking ribs and deflating a […]

I know it is unfashionable, but I quite like the post-Waters Pink Floyd. I like all the various incarnations of the band in different ways. I may have been influenced by having first seen them live at the start […]

The week after my diagnosis I took my motorbike theory test, but because of chemo I couldn’t do the practical. By the time I was recovered enough from the op to handle a big bike we were into lockdown.

When […]

The first GP is well past retirement age and nobody wants to see him.

We are always constantly amazed to find he is still working there. Maybe he is a senior partner or something.

From what I have learned […]

No. My hearing was fine.
Amongst other things I did get the fingers and toe syndrome – which is an official medical term I believe – but mostly on the fingers. I actually lost my fingerprints after a couple of […]

Well. In September 2018 I was having a lot of trouble eating. Just couldn’t swallow solids well and ended up living off soup. GP had given me pills for ulcers but they did nothing so I got a second opinion from […]

There are a few 80’s electro bands still producing new music regularly: Pet Shop Boys, Depeche Mode and Erasure obviously, but also Blancmange who reformed about 10 years ago and have since produced a lot more […]

I had a 12″ single by New Age Steppers that was 33 on one side and 45 on the other.

Being quite dubby stuff it wasn’t always immediately apparent if it had been put on at the wrong speed.

Can I nominate the UK’s two newest national treasures for Britain’s nicest couple, based on their lockdown videos? Mr. Willcox and Mrs. Fripp have an infectious happiness about them.

Funny you should say that. Last night I got into one of those YouTube rabbit holes where one video leads to another and I watched a load of clips of Foo Fighter concerts where DG was getting people out of the […]

I am exactly the right age to be a Star Wars fan, though maybe a year or two younger would have been perfect – but the first time I saw the original three films was on a DVD box set by which time I was obviously […]

1. Fight Club
2. Apocalypse Now
3. Zatoichi (2003)
4. The Blues Brothers
5. Dawn of the Dead (1978 version)
6. Battle Royale
7. Zabriskie Point
8. Oldboy (2003)
9. Taxi (1998 – *not* the American […]

Nice to see Bicycle Thieves there. I don’t think I’ve seen that since watching it at school. It is worth hunting down the 1990’s (I think) pastiche of it, Icicle Thieves. I think its a brilliant film anyway but […]

1. Snapshot – The Strypes
2. The Liberty of Norton Folgate – Madness
3. Inform – Educate – Entertain – Public Service Broadcasting
4. Tekitoi? – Rachid Taha
5. Your Queen is a Reptile – Sons of Kemet
6. Royal […]

I think you have to take it to an opticians to see if it is safe to drive. Something like that anyway. Maybe I have it the wrong way round.

We got round the problem by lending our car to our son so he could get […]

At least Lou Reed’s back catalogue has been reduced to an album. What about acts like Golden Earring?

26 albums, 74 singles, only one song that anybody knows. (See also: Steppenwolf & Blue Oyster Cult)

Mike Oldfield? 26 albums, only one of which is Tubular Bells.

OK maybe 3 or 4 of them are Tubular Bells

I doubt he will eclipse his dad, but Liam Finn is pretty good.

Second that!