Both Country and Western are rich sources of ye olde death dirges..this is Oz legend Slim Dusty.

It’s all about family for some people…from The Phantom Of The Paradise

A suicide pact gone wrong, courtesy of the Mael brothers…

Try the Sheik of Scrubby Creek himself, Mr Chad Morgan…

As scheduled? Surely it wasn’t expected for a few more years?

Speaking of schedules, listened to the Word Podcast, featuring Mark Lewisohn, from 2014. He said we could expect Volume Two in 2020.

Think of your hamper as a Corsair chicken coup.

I was told by a baker that they used to be called the pants piece, because after removing the loaves from the oven, bakers would wipe off any excess flour on their hands on their pants.

Was amused by this over on the Freaky Trigger “Popular” site, about the New Seekers hit “You Won’t Find Another Fool Like Me”…

There’s a nice story about Geoff Stephens, the co-writer: he was comforting his s […]

If Part 13 is nurses, presumably 13.2 is Nurse Duckett, and 13.9 is Nurse Ratched.

Thanks for putting Youtube file that up – I had read about it, but not seen it. Peter Paphides writes about it in an article for The Quietus, “How I Learned To Love Tony Blackburn, by Peter Paphides.”

“He actually appeared in a Monty Python episode.”

IIRC he wrote the introduction for their Big Red Book.

(as in, he didn’t)

I Am The Wormtongue

I Want To Hold Rohan

Cry For A Shadowfax

Nazgul On The Hill

Simon Farnaby – he’s one of the Horrible Histories regular cast too…can’t see him without humming”Stupid deaths, stupid deaths…” to myself.

And not just china – the good china.

Chad Stuart, half of UK duo Chad and Jeremy, has shuffled off at the age of 79. They’re probably best remembered for appearing as themselves in the 1966 “Batman” TV show, despite hits like “Yesterday’s Gone’ and […]

Due to COVID lockdown conditions, your hamper is scheduled to arrive in your neck of the woods about next October.