1 – Years of Meteors – Laura Veirs
2 – Wriggle out the Restless – This is the Kit
3 – The Decline of British Sea Power – British Sea Power
4 – Out of Season – Beth Gibbons and Rustin Man
5 – The Optimist – […]

Washing line in the summer. Clothes horse in the winter.

Who needs a tumble drier.

Handy when you find that sock halfway down the stairs.

Fabric softener being a bit of a con mind.

Apparently it has a tendency to stick to certain items, towels in particular, and then goes hard when the fabric it is attached to dries. Hence why towels tend lose […]

I would imagine a ‘reduced ironing’ setting on a washing machine would reduce the need for ironing as much as an ‘easy iron’ shirt, i.e. not at all.

But I agree, I use the 30°, 40° and occasionally quick wash s […]

I must be unreasonable if I get irritated by this as I don’t see regular references to it elsewhere.

Typos in books.

You would have thought that a book that is going to be published would be proof read to w […]

Yes I agree, it’s worth catching up on if you can.

I’ve occasionally wondered where he’d got to. I used to love ‘Whose line is it anyway’, although I still can as I believe they’re all on Channel 4’s catch up service.

Mention of Sesame Street is sufficient for me to post this fab performance by Feist on the show.

Sisters of Mercy.

The former chief of the Durham police isn’t mincing his words.

I’ve had a great rhubarb crop this year (hardly much to boast about I know, it’s practically a weed) and have gone to town pairing it with its great companion, ginger (powder, stem, crystallised, take your pic […]

Absolutely and I’m not convinced that having a local/regional accent/dialect merits criticism at all.

I and many other fellow folk from round these parts tend to replace ‘y’ at the end of a word with ‘eh’ […]

Brilliant, it just needs some input from Siobhan and Perfect Curve now.

Lawks a lordy that’s incredible.

Thanks for posting Mike and hats off to Ben.

1 – Closer – Joy Division
2 – Laughing Stock – Talk Talk
3 – Unknown Pleasures – Joy Division
4 – The Colour of Spring – Talk Talk
5 – Years of Meteors – Laura Veirs
6 – Wriggle Out the Restless – This is the […]

But before then, quite possibly a night at the opera-ting theatre.

Good end to one of the better series I thought. Plenty of unbelievable moments as usual but that’s Homeland eh.

You do wonder if the fact that both Carrie and Saul survived the last episode leaves the door o […]

Much like @mousey I have to plead complete ignorance but Gideon Coe played this song on 6 Music this morning which has Tony Allen playing drums.

I must listen to Gideon Coe more often. Almost seems that whenever […]

I’ve never been entirely sure whether organisations or companies should be treated in the single or plural sense.

For example, I work in planning at a local authority and have to sign off officer reports on p […]