I think Timothy Spall would work. He can do dignified slob as well as anyone

Being open minded to these sort of things I was always going to give it a go. My wife however could not think of anything worse. This may have been down to a night where too many bottles of wine were consumed […]

Couldn’t agree more with you about A Dance To The Music Of Time. The world Jenkins and Co inhabit is not one many of us would recognise, but it is easy to get caaught up in it. And in Widmerpool you have one of […]

I think you are on the right path there

I never used to be a fan of the Oxford Comma, but the older I get, the more I find it helps with clarity.

Does anyone have an opinion on Jack Higgins? I haven’t read many of his, but Exocet seemed to me an appropriately old fashioned thriller. With goodies, baddies and beautiful ex wives.

Probably not quite the […]

Not sure about one, but I’d like to thank my parents, Mother Theresa and the Pope… seems to sum up the problem

I thought it was “God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen” It sort f makes sense to rest merry.

I will never forget that day. It was school sports day and no-one, teachers included, was paying any attention to the 100 metres or the tug o war. Everyone who could get near to a radio was glued to TMS.

What […]

I don’t think I’d heard the annihilation Mix for 30years and I can actually remember every word.

well ‘ard

First Single – Back Of My Hand – The Jags
First Album – Smash and Grab – Racey
First CD – Disco -Pet Shop Boys
First Gig The Jam – Wembley Arena Dec 1982. Their last London gig, supported by Big […]

The Jam – Going Underground / Dreams of Children

Wasn’t Mr Pooter PM from 1990 to 1997?

Perhaps weed counted as one (all) of your five a day

Thanks for this suggestion. Was there today and had a very nice sandwich and, as you say, no chips. Very friendly staff

I understand that the problem was that he failed to sign the release form before he died, so they don’t show them. I suspect it was more of an oversight than a deliberate act

Richard Hawley: “I read the other day the drinking is bad for you. Sod that I thought. So I’m giving up reading”

Can’t help but feel Billy Preston added something to this one from the HJHs.

https://youtu.be/od5JD5t41uA

Didn’t someone (possible also George Melly) also say of the similarly wrinkled W H Auden ‘Imagine the state of his b**ls’ or words to that effect

Have you read this? https://www.amazon.co.uk/Golden-Age-Murder-Martin-Edwards/dp/0008105987/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=golden+age+of+murder&qid=1564489290&s=gateway&sr=8-1

It is a history of the Detection Club and the […]