Hot Dogs, jumping frogs
Total madness, but we all sing along

Home, now, spent out, but had a fab time.
Operation Mincemeat (the musical) was three women and two men playing about sixty different characters (MI5, sailors, typists, a Coroner, mortuary staff, German Stormtroopers, bar staff, an American Airman, et al)
If you know the story, or saw…[Read more]

My efforts to 3-star all of Seasons without any reference to walkthroughs, just for posterity have ground to a halt on quite a few Pig Days levels. I’m starting at the most recent episodes and working back, so this is only the seventh episode I think. Well tough.

@hunnybunny, if you really want to fry your brain!  I’ve done number 1..

https://www.gchq.gov.uk/files/GCHQ%20Christmas%20Challenge%202024.pdf

Off to London tomorrow, mainly to see A Christmas Carol at the Old Vic
Our third visit
As a critic said “Every year they put it on, I will be there”
Scrooge is played (and sung) by John Simm this year
Also meeting up with my sister and family, and eating and drinking

The 1% Club is stressful.

Twiggy and I were on the beach at Red Dwarf (a.k.a. Red Wharf) Bay this morning and were shocked to discover thousands (in fact I would confidently venture millions) of dead baby starfish. An astonishing sight. Also hundreds of pieces of what I believe is called Sea Pork which looks unnervingly like swollen pink human…[Read more]

Quizzical Monday followed by The 1% Club
My brain is frazzled

Anyway, need to catch up with Quizzy Monday.

On that theme, who can forget the immortal Peabo Bryson and Roberta Flack duet “Tonight I Sellotape my Glove to You”. Once heard, never unheard.

Spoiler

Some sources claim that they are both the result of things misheard – in Paddy MacAloon’s case “peppered sprout” from a Johnny Cash song and in Jack White’s case, Salvation Army. I think the second has more truth, but anyway, those origin stories are both out there.

Google failed…

A guess white stripes
Will Google

What connects Prefab Spout to Seven Nation Army?

I’m always answering a question on the page before!
But worth it for the song, I fear this site is breaking down too!

Wet and windy obvs

The most well-known song about Bangor. However, it’s not about Bangor at all, more likely Rhyl about 20 miles along the coast. The lyrics just worked better with Bangor.

Tidy and also tidey.