My neighbour, a Type 1 sufferer since age 12, says if she had a dollar for every time she’s seen a ”Cure For Diabetes Imminent” headline, she could buy that concert grand piano she’s had her eye on.

And let us not speak of carob.

“I can’t exactly put my finger on what’s different (maybe the milk ?) but something is.”

I was told years ago it was to do with the climatic difference between the UK and Oz – they apparently do something to […]

Have occasionally gone along to keep vigil with a must-have-my-photo-taken-with-Celebrity-X friend, and the two Flight of The Conchords fellows couldn’t have been nicer.

How do Supertramp fans feel about it?

If you like “Making Of…” accounts and don’t mind Twitter, Making Blake’s 7 could be for you*

*unless you know about it already, in which case ignore me.

Barry Ryan, best known for his hit song “Eloise” (though incredibly it got no further than #86 on the US chart), has expired at the too-early age of 72.

Just the one? You can get four collections per calendar year down this way…just book on the council’s website, and they’ll tell you when. As you point out, a good deal of it’s gone* by time they arrive.

*I […]

I’m convinced my neighbours live in a TARDIS. The sheer cubic-metred volume of crap they put out – and they have no shed or garage to store it in – makes me wonder where it’s all been before appearing on the verge.

Modesty Blaise; created in 1963, finished in 2002….femmes don’t come much fataler.

No, if she’s been lurking a while, she’ll also be familiar with flouncing, and is possibly trying to cram as much into her first day here to make it a memorable experience.

Makes a change from “You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave…”

Which one was that, Dud?

“…and the sets pure cardboard.”

I’ve found it much easier to watch since I decided it was a series of television plays, as opposed to a usual series. Somehow it’s easier to overlook the lack of production […]

Another member of the 80 Club – it’s a bit of a worry.

Great soundtrack by Francis Lai, too.

‘Tis the season – just about magpie-swooping time, too.

It was my mother’s favourite TV show – as a youngster if I was at home sick on a school day, I could tell when it was 2.00pm because that trumpeting theme tune could be heard coming from the lounge.

Violet […]

And don’t forget fillmeister supreme Hal Blaine. Takes a fairly throwaway number…

…and then at the 0:36 point throws in a couple of fills that lift it into something other than else. He did that a lot.

Woody Woodmansey on Bowie’s “Watch That Man”

At 1:54 he throws in a small fill – nothing flash, but the thing is: why is it there? Unlike most traditional drum fills, it’s not at the end of a verse leading into […]