And the Nick Lowe produced this, also coming out on Stiff, widely regarded to be the first charting UK punk single. Written by Brian James, who died 2 weeks ago.

@vuelva, the story of the Appalachian Trail is that in mid January 2024 my friend Jenn said that her Fitbit (or equivalent) had congratulated her on completing a challenge walk of some description (can’t remember which) and that now she was beginning the Appalachian Trail, 2198 miles.  I said that Twiggy and I would race her to the end and that…[Read more]

Time to chill out on a rainy Sunday morning.

Need to get your daily dose of flugelhorn.

Funny thing @hunnybunny, Atticus Finch was a very famous mountaineering mini-Schnauzer in the States, about 15 years ago. Twiggy has some of the same characteristics, for example stands and stares at views.

Right, just for that I will have to unleash the full force of the great Boo Radleys onto you. This is just for starters.

Nah, didn’t work.

I guess this is what is required. Out of the incredible Stiff Records stable.

Not popular on the ABo scene. Remains a terrible tosser. We must be up to close to a month now.

I am getting a tad suspicious. There are 699 ABo levels out of 2934 that could possibly end up in the Challenge, i.e. 23.8%

On that basis we might expect an ABo level to come up every 4-5 days.

The chance of not getting any ABo levels for almost 4 weeks is less than 1 in 1000.

The obvious conclusion is that Rohit Sharma* is choosing the…[Read more]

Surely the twist is…he really was dead.

Went for our walk today, in the hinterland between coast and mountains. Passed a very distinctive church that was in the middle of nowhere. Got home, turned on Countryfile and the very same church was featured having its roof slates replaced.